Sarah Gogel, Managing Director & Founder

Ms. Sarah Gogel, LMSW, an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow (2011), is Managing Director, Co-Founder of Global Potential and Founder of Global Potential Boston. Sarah is a Law School student at Northeastern University School of Law, specialized in international development through a dual degree Masters at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University (2013). She will carry out an exchange program with Sciences Po law school in Paris from January to May, 2012, as part of the Northeastern Law School program.

Sarah 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 ten 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. Sarah was most recently a legal intern in the Caribbean Unit of the Regional office of Washington D.C. of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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. She was recognized as Boston Hero of the Year in 2010 (Boston Metro) and was a PresenTense Fellow for Social Innovators in 2011. Sarah is also YouthActionNet Global International Youth Fellow (2009).