Sarah Hemingway Lynch was elected to the School Board for the Onteora Central School District in 2022. She is a Senior Public Policy Consultant with Global Health Visions. She is currently an advisor in the Gender Equality Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a partner to mission driven social justice organizations providing overall planning, management, and execution of complex strategies that help organizations improve the impact they want to have in the world. She has over 20 years of experience in non-profit senior management, most recently at CARE, a global humanitarian organization. At CARE, she built the global advocacy program, and led the strategy, fundraising and implementation of cross-cutting initiatives to further CARE’s advocacy agenda and provide insight on partnerships and initiatives that are locally led and globally connected. Throughout her career, Sarah has always worked to listen and amplify important stories to inform decision makers and policy makers when it matters. She was granted a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University. She and her husband, Marty Lynch, live in West Shokan, to raise their three children who all graduated from Woodland Playhouse and now attend Onteora Schools. Sarah and Marty run a community coffee shop and market called Marty’s Mercantile. Sarah serves on the AYSO soccer board and the Onteora United Soccer board.