Sarah Jackson is Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region based in Nairobi, Kenya. She leads the organization’s campaigns and advocacy on 11 countries. As part of Amnesty International’s Management Team, Sarah is leading an organizational change process to increase the organization’s operations, impact and membership growth in the Global South.

Sarah has worked on the Great Lakes Region for over a decade and has lived in Kenya, Uganda and Burundi for the past 9 years. She previously worked as Acting Deputy Africa Director, Acting Head of the Africa Regional Office, and Rwanda and Burundi Researcher with Amnesty International. As a researcher she led around 15 human rights missions and wrote reports on freedom of speech and assembly, disappearances and torture. She has also worked for the American Friends Service Committee and Human Rights Watch.

Sarah holds an MSc in Comparative Politics and a BSc in Government and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a Harvard-trained negotiator and alumni of Harvard’s Executive Education Program. She is also a Carnegie New Leader with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York.

Fun fact: As a kid, Sarah had over 50 penpals scattered across the world. No wonder she ended up working for one of the world’s biggest letter writing organizations. She still likes receiving letters, somehow email just doesn’t cut it sometimes.