Sarah Carr, a journalist for the last two decades, writes about education with a focus on early childhood learning and the intersection of race and disability. She has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic magazine, Slate and numerous other outlets, winning several national awards.
Carr is director of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University, and a contributing editor at The Hechinger Report.
Previously, she led The Great Divide, an investigative team at the Boston Globe focused on race and inequality. She also oversaw The Teacher Project, an education reporting fellowship at Columbia Journalism School that partnered with more than 30 local and national media outlets. At the Teacher Project, Carr created “What My Students Taught Me,” an education podcast distributed in collaboration with the Atlantic, WBEZ, the Texas Standard, and other public radio partners.
Carr is the author of “Hope Against Hope,” which tells the story of the post-Katrina New Orleans schools through the experiences of a student, a teacher, and a family. The book was chosen as a campus-wide read at Tulane University and Macalester College.
Her personal website: http://www.sarahelizabethcarr.com