As President & CEO of the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, Sarah Morgenthau leads the organization’s national strategy to advance educational equity and expand long-term opportunities for students in under-resourced communities. In this role, she oversees program innovation, deepens partnerships across sectors, and works closely with Dream Scholars, affiliates, and supporters to strengthen outcomes and grow the Foundation’s impact nationwide.

Before joining the Foundation, Sarah built a distinguished career in public service and global development. She held senior leadership roles in both the Biden and Obama administrations, including serving as the U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security, and Director of Peace Corps Response. In these positions, she advanced U.S. competitiveness, strengthened public-private partnerships, and expanded global health and economic initiatives that reached high-need communities around the world.

Sarah’s experience also includes work in the private sector as an attorney at an international law firm, service in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal clerkship, and leadership in business development at a global investigations firm.

A committed civic leader, she has served on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League, Pact, Lehman College, Trailblazers, Global Fellows in Courage, the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project, and the Homeland Security Advisory Board in Rhode Island. She was also a candidate for the U.S. Congress in Rhode Island.

Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College and earned her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

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