Sarah Savage
Research Assistant
Sarah Savage is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology completing her dissertation work on the impact of the private-public system of health insurance on the increasing challenges of becoming and remaining middle class in the United States. Sarah’s broader interests include poverty and inequality as well as strategies for generating economic mobility. As a Research Assistant at the Carsey Institute, Sarah has co-authored reports on demographics, values and voting, and the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Program. She has also co-authored fact sheets on both rural child poverty and food stamps in rural America.
Sarah has had the opportunity to work directly with various non-profit organizations around New Hampshire to assist with their research needs. Most recently, Sarah served as an evaluation fellow at Carsey, which offered her opportunities to work on extensive multi-method evaluation projects for non-profit organizations in the New Hampshire seacoast area. Prior to pursuing graduate work at the University of New Hampshire, Sarah received a B.S. from Babson College and worked as a measurement analyst at a Boston-based marketing firm.