Sarah Hemingway Lynch is overseeing the Gender portfolio at GHV, supporting all of the consultants who are managing projects in the gender sector. In this role, Sarah works to knit together existing work and accumulated knowledge to extend GHV’s support to new organizations or partners in the gender space in a regenerative model. In her own client work, Sarah  is a partner to mission driven social justice organizations providing overall planning, management, and execution of complex strategies that help organizations improve the impact they want to have in the world. She has over 20 years of experience in non-profit senior management. Her U.S. and global policy and advocacy experience generated networks in North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. She is passionate about gender equality and economic justice as well as the monitoring and evaluation work that is critical to assessing the reach and impact teams can have in the world.

Sarah began her career as a journalist for news outlets, including Reuters Television and People Magazine. She subsequently worked on national political campaigns and was responsible for media strategy, policy and events. She joined the public affairs staff at the Risk and Insurance Management Society following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S and the subsequent Enron collapse where she was responsible for media relations, government affairs and member mobilization. She was working alongside experts to influence the creation of Ready.gov, while also learning firsthand the implications of U.S. global policy on other nations. Her feminist perspective was inspired by influential activists involved with Americans for UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) where she served as National Outreach Coordinator and was responsible for building bases of support in key legislative districts throughout the country to advocate for women and girls everywhere. From there, she joined CARE where she spent over 15 years in the policy and advocacy unit. At CARE, she built the global advocacy program, and led the strategy, fundraising and implementation of cross-cutting initiatives to further CARE’s advocacy agenda and provide insight on partnerships and initiatives that are locally led and globally connected. Sarah served as the first trip director at CARE, managing the Learning Tours program which enabled policymakers to visit directly with program participants. She also managed flagship programs, including, the CARE Action Network, the Women and Girls Lead Global program which elevated CARE’s thought leadership on systems level change and gender equity.
 

Throughout her career, Sarah has always worked to listen and amplify important stories to inform decision makers and policy makers when it matters. She was granted a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University. She and her husband, Marty Lynch, live in West Shokan, New York, a small hamlet in the Catskill Mountains, to raise their three children. Sarah was elected to the School Board for the Onteora Central School District in 2022.