Sarah attended Sunday school at Congregation Kol Ami, became a bat mitzvah in Jerusalem, and was confirmed at Congregation Beth Torah. She graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School and earned a BS in environmental science from The University of Kansas. She earned master’s degrees in International Affairs from American University and Resource Development and Sustainability from the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica. She was an active member of Hillel and Chabad at The University of Kansas. Sarah spent a year working in Israel building bridges between Jews and Arabs in the high-tech sector.
Sarah began working as the Director of Civil Society Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2023. She was responsible for outreach to progressive communities in the U.S. connecting with young adults, LGBTQ+, African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Indigenous communities to address gender equality, sexual violence against women, and climate degradation. At the Embassy, she met Yaron Lischinsky. Sarah and Yaron were planning to travel to Israel four days after their tragic deaths to meet his family and become engaged. Instead, they were gunned down outside an American Jewish Committee event at the Capital Jewish Museum in an antisemitic hate crime.
