Sarah Lupberger

Sarah Lupberger's career has focused on empowering local champions and strengthening communities to improve natural resource management and address inequities and injustice. She is currently on the Climate Team at Rainforest Alliance to better connect corporate climate commitments and RA's farm and landscape-level initiatives. She was previously the regional technical expert for landscape-level projects that build multi-stakeholder initiatives that seek to drive public and private finance to address challenges that require collective action to address, such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, systemic poverty, and human rights abuses. She has worked closely with local initiatives in Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Ghana, and Colombia.

Prior to Rainforest Alliance, Sarah worked as a Manager of Sustainable Landscapes at Verra where she led the piloting workstream as part of the team developing the LandScale tool and worked on climate adaptation and REDD+. In 2015, Sarah completed a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship at the Ministry of Environment in Peru focused on improving national policies to address deforestation and increasing indigenous inclusion. Sarah has also worked at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. and Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales in Lima, Peru, where she focused on forest and electricity governance. She has an MESc from the Yale School of the Environment, and has a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Chicago.