Sarah Johnson

Sarah is the CEO of Teaching Lab, a national non-profit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning for educational equity.

Sarah joined Teaching Lab in 2018 from the Overdeck Family Foundation, and has held leadership roles at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), working directly with the Deputy Chancellor of Teaching and Learning. Before her work at the NYCDOE, she was a high school science teacher and founder of a social justice student leadership program in Washington, DC and Oakland, CA.

Sarah has a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate school of education where she studied systems-level leadership. She earned her M.A.T. from American University, and graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Neuroscience from Emory University.