Sarah is an information science Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University, where she studied municipal algorithmic systems, race/ism, and inequality. Her dissertation focused on the administration of pretrial risk assessments in Virginia. She uses a mixed-methods approach to understand how human discretion in the pretrial process—particularly by pretrial officers—affects risk scores, pretrial detention decisions, and life outcomes for accused people. Her interest in municipal algorithmic systems arose while working at the New York City Department of Education to re-engage out-of-school youth and volunteer for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a national coalition working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. Her research is funded by the Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation, and UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She also has a master’s in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Amherst College.