Team

Principal - Sarah Vaughan

Sarah is a political operative with extensive experience in campaigns, elections, lobbying, and issue advocacy.  Most recently, she was the Policy Director at Gill Action, an LGBT equality organization dedicated to advancing LGBT rights on the state level. Her role was to create and manage Gill Action’s legislative strategy to pass pro-LGBT policy in multiple states controlled by both Republicans and Democrats

Sarah was on the political team at Gill Action when historic marriage victories such as New York's occurred and was the political lead in several states that won key civil unions and marriage equality fights including Delaware, Minnesota, Colorado, and Rhode Island.  Before coming to Gill Action, Sarah served as Political Director at the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, working towards  retaining and winning democratic majorities in state legislatures throughout the country. During Sarah’s election cycle tenure at the DLCC her work resulted in a net gain of seats for Democrats. Prior to the DLCC, Sarah worked as caucus director in the Colorado senate for the first female President of the Colorado Senate: Joan Fitz-Gerald. 

Sarah completed her undergraduate degree and Master’s of Public Administration at the University of Colorado.  She is originally from North Carolina and currently resides with her son, husband, and dog in Denver.