Sarah Gardner, Ph.D.
Program Associate
sgardner@envadvocates.org

As a Program Associate, Sarah Gardner helps to direct Environmental Advocates' brownfields program. She conducts policy research, develops policy initiatives, coordinates educational campaigns, writes informational material on the brownfields issue, participates in the Brownfields Coalition, and pursues a legislative agenda that will effectively address New York's serious brownfield problem.

Sarah has a background in government and academia. Before joining Environmental Advocates she worked as the Brownfields Coordinator at the New Jersey Office of State Planning. Previously she was a Project Director at the Howard Samuels State Management and Policy Center, an academic research institute, where she directed comparative state urban and environmental policy research projects. Earlier, Sarah spent several years working in New York City's Recycling Program. She has lectured on urban politics and environmental policy at Barnard College, Princeton University, and Williams College.

Sarah has a Ph.D. in political science from the City University of New York Graduate School. She also has an M.P.A. from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Smith College, and has been a fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.