Sarah Jacob
Emergency Response Team Lead for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Sarah Jacob is the lead on the Emergency Response team at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), where she has worked since 2020. Sarah oversees a global emergency and protection portfolio across activists and democracy advocates to ensure careful planning, provide the supportive infrastructure, and deploy the expertise to respond to emergencies with respect for the dignity and lives of NED’s partners and staff. Sarah has traveled globally monitoring and supporting partners working in the democracy space facing diverse and challenging operating environments as well as engaging with communities of protection and civil society experts. Sarah earned her Bachelors in Science in International Studies with a focus on International Security, Norms, and Cooperation and Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience from University of Michigan.