Heya friends, I’m Sarah.
I am a deeply optimistic individual working on the future of urban mobility. I practice the art of thoughtfully embracing technology through design, policy, relationship-building, and community-based research. I’m very lucky to have called many cities “home” throughout my life, and currently reside in London, UK.
I write a weekly newsletter about the impact advanced transportation technology (including, but not limited to, autonomous vehicles) is having on our cities, and how we can reorient the conversation to explore how technology can deliver against urban agendas. You can sign up here.
In London, I co-host a monthly mobility meet-up with my friends at Steer that brings together professionals from across the industry: private, public, non-profit, academia, and the transport-curious. You can register to join a community of 150+ transport wonks here. We send a calendar invite each month to a bakery or pub a few weeks before meeting.
I hold a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science in City Design & Social Sciences, and a BA in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia. My research has been published by the UN, Siemens, and LSE Cities. I have spent my entire adult life volunteering for safer streets, and in my youth was climate activist with a penchant for dumpster diving (photos available upon request). You can download my CV here.
You can usually find me exploring the cities I call home with my bike, Mildred. When I’m not thinking about transportation, I love to read about art history with a cup of tea beside my bed, go cold-water swimming at the Hampstead Heath ponds, and hosting dinner parties exploring everything from the physics of pasta to world politics, and questioning the benefits of blow dryers (limited as far as I can tell). I also wrote an entire zine about how to have the best bath of your life, linked up above (“Under the Bubbles”)!
PS. My friend Tom Atkin took this image, if you’re looking for a photographer, you can find more of his work here.