Sarah Holloway

Focus areas: Nonprofits & social enterprises, start-ups, K–12 education, education technology with a focus on urban school systems, education equity

Sarah Holloway has worked in the public and nonprofit sector for 25 years. She is currently a full-time member of the SIPA faculty where she teaches Nonprofit Financial Management, Social Entrepreneurship and Design for Social Innovation. In addition to teaching, she runs the school’s Leadership, Innovation & Design Specialization—a set of courses and activities that support knowledge and skill building in non-profit, for-profit and social enterprise leadership and management.  Sarah has worked at the intersection of education, equity and technology (edtech) for 30 years and is the co-founder of MOUSE.org, Computer Science for All (CSforAll), and The Wellness Classroom.  During the beginning of the global pandemic in 2020, Sarah co-founded eLab, an online fellowship aimed at bringing together problem-solvers, experts and entrepreneurs in K-12, higher education and workforce to rethink the systems that educate our planet to help ensure equality and equity of access. eLab has served ~125 education entrepreneurs to date. Sarah sits on the Board of CSforALL, n-Powered, Five One Labs, Eat Offbeat, BenefitKitchen, Open StartUp, Gotham Gives and Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design.  

Education

• MPA, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
• BA, Bowdoin College

Affiliations

• MOUSE
• Computer Science for All (CSforALL)
• Benefit Kitchen
• Five One Labs
• Eat Offbeat
• Civic Hall 
• Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design
• Columbia University Design Studio
• eLab Fellowship