Sarah Schneider

Development Director Sarah Schneider (she/her) holds a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington and has studied towards her M.F.A. at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was the Grants & External Affairs Manager at Maine Family Planning for over nine years and then worked at the Maine Women’s Fund as their Development Coordinator before joining The Telling Room in December of 2014. She remains optimistic that she will someday finish writing a literary biography of her cousin Dr. Doris Cochran, who was an avid weaver and groundbreaking herpetologist at the Smithsonian. Sarah lives in Portland with her family.