About Sarah

Sarah C. G. Christopherson has two decades of experience working for and with Congress and the Executive Branch to achieve progressive victories across a host of issues. She specializes in tax, budget, and health policy.

She has been quoted as a policy expert in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, Reuters, Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Rewire, Prevention, Yahoo News, Vice, ABC News San Francisco, and other print, TV, and radio outlets.

Sarah worked for Congress from 2005 to 2015, including five years as the deputy chief of staff/legislative director to Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-MA). Over the course of her decade working on the Hill, Sarah staffed every issue area that comes before the federal government, with in-depth knowledge of health policy, tax policy, financial services, consumer protection, and the federal budget. Her experience staffing members of Congress includes work on the Great Recession-era recovery packages, the Affordable Care Act, the 2011 debt limit crisis, the 2012 fiscal cliff, and more.

From 2016 to 2021, Sarah served as the policy advocacy director for the National Women’s Health Network (NWHN) where she was responsible for directing the organization’s legislative, regulatory, and judicial advocacy efforts and managing the policy team. She served as the NWHN’s primary issue area expert on federal health reform implementation and defense, including the progressive movement’s successful effort to block ACA repeal during the Trump Administration; drug and device safety and efficacy, where she regularly testified before the Federal Drug Administration; and sexual and reproductive health, where she created a successful campaign to lift politically motivated, medically unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion. She also directed federal policy initiatives for Raising Women’s Voices (RWV)—a joint project of the NWHN, Community Catalyst, and the Black Women’s Health Imperative—and led RWV’s work on Medicaid expansion.

From 2021 to 2024, Sarah was the legislative and policy director for Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), a coalition of over 400 national, state and local endorsing organizations united in support of a fair tax system that works for all Americans, not just the wealthiest few. As ATF’s sole registered lobbyist on staff, she led the coalition’s advocacy efforts on Build Back Better, the Inflation Reduction Act, and IRS defense. Her work for ATF building support in Congress for taxing billionaires, taxing stock buybacks, and blocking egregious corporate tax cuts has been praised by leaders of the Senate Finance, Senate Budget, House Ways and Means, and House Budget Committees.

Her legislative accomplishments include provisions enacted into law in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) reauthorization, and multiple National Defense Authorizations (NDAAs).

 She has bachelor’s degrees in political science and history from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in foreign policy from George Washington University.