Sarah Brown
Green Alliance Project Director Sarah Brown has been an environmental advocate in her community for the last 10 years. She has served on Kittery’s Town Council and the Zoning Board of Appeals. Sarah created Kittery Progressive Action, a community action coalition that responds to and organizes around progressive issues in Kittery, southern Maine, and Portsmouth.
She also formed St. John’s Stewardship of the Earth Committee in Portsmouth–a group which educates the Seacoast community on environmental issues. Brown spear-headed Cool Kittery, which convinced the Town Council to sign the Mayors Agreement on Climate Change and then regrouped to become Kittery’s current Energy Efficiency Committee–a town-sanctioned board that is now working to reduce Kittery’s energy use and promote conservation in the schools and the community.
Before moving to the Seacoast, Brown worked as a journalist for five years in Moscow, Russia, for CNN, BBC, NBC, and the Associated Press. Pre-Russia she worked at CNN’s New York bureau. Brown has a degree in Russian Studies from Columbia University. She lives in Kittery with her husband and three young daughters.