Sarah Uhl

suhl@cleanwater.org

Sarah Uhl works for Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund to coordinate the Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut. The Coalition includes more than 50 non-profit organizations representing over 340,000 Connecticut parents, health professionals, workers, environmental health and justice advocates, scientists, teachers, and people of faith. In this role, Sarah manages the Coalition’s advocacy, media, coalition building, and grassroots organizing campaigns, which have resulted in over a dozen new policies at the municipal and state levels. In 2008, the Coalition won modernized lead and asbestos standards for children’s products. In 2009, the Coalition successfully supported legislation to phase out Bisphenol-A from all reusable food and beverage containers and infant formula and baby food cans and jars sold, manufactured, or distributed in the state. That year, the Coalition also supported a successful proposal to require that all public schools be cleaned with green products.

Previously, Sarah worked for Clean Water Fund to coordinate the Connecticut Alliance Against Diesel Pollution. She facilitated strategic planning meetings of the Diesel Citizen Steering Committee, led statewide outside organizing, and helped to lead media and advocacy efforts. In 2007, the Alliance passed legislation that provided $10 million in funding to retrofit all of the old, polluting school buses in the state. Sarah earned a BA in Environmental Biology and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College, with honors. Prior to joining Clean Water, Sarah held research and field technician positions with the Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Dartmouth College.