Sarah holds a BA in Philosophy from Middlebury College and an MA in Secondary Mathematics Education from Columbia University. She completed a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy from University of the West while raising her three children and was ordained as a lay Buddhist minister in 2015. Sarah and her husband currently live in London, where she volunteers as a Buddhist chaplain at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She also serves in various capacities across the Khyentse Mandala network. She was originally lured to Tibetan Buddhism by its use of reason to invite comfort in paradox.