She is a human rights advocate who has received numerous awards for her work for equal rights for all regardless of sexual orientation and for equal access for people who experience disabilities (including a patent for a method of making small boat harbors wheelchair accessible).
Her parents also live in Juneau and are co-founders of Juneau's chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
Sara has been featured in several books to date, among them Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights and Is It a Choice? both by Eric Marcus; and in an anthology titled Side by Side: On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling, edited by Andrew R. Gottlieb, Ph.D.
