Sarah Sladen
Collaborative on Global Children's Issues
Sarah Sladen is a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues, where she is leading a focus on global youth development in a changing landscape of foreign assistance, funding, and partnerships. Her areas of expertise include positive youth development (PYD), youth engagement and leadership, economic inclusion and mobility, and sports-based youth development (SBYD).
- Has more than 20 years of experience as a grantmaker, grantee, and youth advocate for assets-based approaches to youth in development, inclusion, and peacebuilding, working with young people, governments, donor agencies, UN agencies, and nongovernmental organizations in the United States, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Served as the former agency senior youth advisor at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), overseeing policy and practice for $540 million in global youth development programs across 90 countries, and advancing USAID’s commitments to meaningful and inclusive youth engagement.
- Holds an M.A. in international development with a concentration in children and youth from American University.