Sara Marcellino

Sara brings almost fifteen years of non-profit management and development experience to TransForm, where she designs and implements a comprehensive fundraising strategy to ensure TransForm has the resources to advance its program and policy work. She also has experience in program and financial management, communications and outreach. As the Executive Director of the Friends of Sausal Creek from 2004-2009, Sara doubled the size of the organization and was instrumental in the creation of a state-funded science-based watershed plan, and the implementation of several pieces of that plan. 

Sara is currently active with the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as well as the Development Executives Roundtable. Sara serves as the Co-Fundraising Chair of the nonprofit organization SchoolCARE and sits on the fundraising committee of Nia House Learning Center in Berkeley, where she is helping with a capital campaign.

She is affiliated with the Women's Environmental Network and has a strong interest in education, world cultures and public radio (check out her latest KQED Perspective here, http://www.kqed.org/a/perspectives/R201106070735). Sara holds a M.A. in Geography and Human Environmental Studies from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Boston College. Sara has written for magazines such as Leadership and Bay Nature, as well as for the Sierra Club Books publication Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World.