Sarah Edkins Lien (She/Her)

Sarah Edkins Lien is director of communications at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation that contributes to social change to advance a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Ms. Lien’s career in nonprofit and social good communications spans arts and education, human rights, and community organizing. Prior to joining the Fund in March 2018, she led strategic communications at PEN America, an international writers’ organization that works to protect the right to free expression for all, and at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. She began her career in the veterans movement as a program coordinator with Iraq Veterans Against the War. Ms. Lien holds a Bachelor of Science in Film and Television from Boston University and a Master of Arts in Near East Studies with a concentration in Business from New York University.