TEAM
Sarah Vazquez
PROGRAM ADVISOR, MENTOR
Sarah is an anthropologist, educator, and lifelong student. She began her career working at a prominent education technology startup focused on teaching critical life skills often sidelined during standards-based classroom instruction (think financial literacy, digital citizenship, and entrepreneurship). She quickly learned that she needed to be on the frontlines of teaching and learning, left the desk job, and ventured into the classroom. She spent the next 5 years working as a Classroom Teacher while earning her Masters of Arts in Teaching from John’s Hopkins University. When not in the classroom, Sarah mentored adolescents in the field working as a Mentor, Guide, and Facilitator for several international experiential education organizations across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and China.
In 2019 Sarah moved with her family to New York City to accept a prestigious fellowship to study Anthropology and Education at Columbia University. In 2024, Sarah earned her Masters in Philosophy in Anthropology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She continues her studies and will eventually earn her Ph.D. with a research focus on digital technologies and civic media literacies.
Upon relocating to New York City, Sarah also launched a boutique education consultancy that has allowed her to independently serve students, families, schools, and educational organizations. Through this endeavor she has gained both a broad and deep understanding of modern education systems, and teaching and learning practices, notably acting in the roles of Academic Advisor, Curriculum Developer, Consultant, and Interim Executive Director.
Sarah credits her insatiable thirst for learning, discovery, and adventure to her very own Gap Year. As a teenager, she graduated high school intending to advance straight to college, but instead took a camping trip and announced to her family’s great surprise, that she would defer her acceptance to Georgetown University and instead travel to Europe and Asia, work on organic farms and at her hometown hockey rink, solo backpack as a young woman, camp in the Himalaya and the Pyrenees, catch up on sleep, and traverse numerous new landscapes, both internal and external, by foot, bus, train, boat, and automobile.
Sarah is thrilled to be involved with Future Framers and finally return mentoring Gap Year students and explorers.