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Sarah Schulman

Sarah is Project Lead and our specialist in the area of Youth.  She is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where she is completing her doctorate on participatory governance and bureaucratic reform. In 2005, Sarah graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Human Biology and a Masters in Education Policy. There, she co-chaired the University’s centre for community service and service learning.  Sarah has worked as a consultant on youth participation for governments in three countries and ten states. For the past ten years Sarah has run Youth Infusion, a youth-run organization she started as a thirteen-year old that provides technical assistance and capacity building to organisations targeting youth, but not yet meaningfully engaging youth. In addition, Sarah has helped develop integrated health and education policy for all levels of government—from working with a US Congressman to the US Assistant Surgeon General to the city of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.


Blog Posts

Get your loops here

Our summer prototype of Loops has ended, but our learning about how to enable youth and community development has really just begun.

Test driving a new youth services model

We're at the prototyping phase of our youth work.

A stronger duty of care

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/27/homeless-young-people

Introducing the good adolescence

Reach out has just finished the first of four phases of work in Brighton-Hove and Croydon.

Raising aspiration

A front page Guardian article announces new strategies for addressing youth ambition...

Independence or interdependence?

How can we better understand the concept of connectedness?

Youth and the street corner society

Adults name young people 'hanging around' as one of the top threats to their sense of safety. An article in Leisure Studies constructively gets underneath and reframes the concept of youth 'hanging around.'

The carrot and carrot approach

A recent article in The Guardian highlights one community's efforts to align healthy behaviours with healthy incentives.

Making (and paying for) good news

Language is powerful.

What’s happening on your block?

There’s a saying that all politics is local, and in a globalised era, so too is all news. What happens in other places reverberates—so much so—that we are often more aware of international events than local events

Living and breathing connectedness

Our work on young people is about connectedness. It’s about the relationships young people have to themselves, their families, supportive adults, and the worlds beyond where they live. Most programmes and interventions aim to do something else: to reduce teenage pregnancy, to stop anti-social behavior, to curtail drug use.