Sarah Gogel, Managing Director & Founder

Ms. Sarah Gogel, LMSW, Managing Director, is co-founder of Global Potential and Founder of Global Potential Boston. Simultaneously, Sarah is going to Law School for her J.D. at Northeastern University School of Law, and specializing in international development through a dual degree Masters at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University (expected graduation, 2013).

Sarah is former Development Coordinator and Clinician at PARTNERS Program, a youth empowerment program at St. John’s University. She holds her A.B. in Sociology from Harvard College and a Masters in Social Work from Wurzweiler School of Social Work. She has in-depth experience working with diverse at-risk populations, specifically with trauma survivors, youth, the elderly and migrants.

Sarah has worked for 11 years in the fields of development, advocacy and human rights in international and national organizations-from corporations like l’Oréal Recherche in France to non-profits like Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, the International Institute of New Jersey and the Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH) in Paris. Originally from Paris, France, Sarah is a native French speaker, is fluent in English and Spanish, and speaks Hindi and Urdu. She has worked with multiethnic and multicultural populations in India, Israel, Nicaragua, France and the United States. In 2007, Sarah won the Diversity and Ageing award from AARP for her thesis on social isolation among the elderly in France. Sarah was Disaster Mental Health Worker for the American Red Cross of Greater New York for three years and previously represented an NGO at the United Nations in NY headquarters.

Sarah’s dream is to open up Global Potential in her hometown of Paris, France and carry out international cultural exchange in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Senegal and Mali and India and Pakistan in the next three to five years. Sarah was recently awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship for Muslim and Jewish Social Entrepreneurs. She is also the recipient of the PresenTense Fellowship for Social Innovators (2011) and is a YouthActionNet Global International Youth Fellow (2009). She was recognized by the Boston Metro as Boston Hero of the Year (2010).