Sarah Lawton serves as the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) Director of Online Community. She leads GARE’s online community team, ensuring that the GARE Network Portal and interactive online spaces build a sense of community and connection, fuel online discussion and generative exchange, and help keep racial equity practitioners informed of innovations across the field. Her work is informed by her background and training as a public librarian.
Prior to joining Race Forward in 2020, Sarah was a Neighborhood Library Supervisor at Madison [WI] Public Library, where she led the community-driven design process for a new library. She was also a library leader in GARE and a founding member of Madison’s Racial Equity & Social Justice Initiative. Sarah holds a BA in Sociology from Macalester College and a Master of Library & Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.