Sarah Ha is the Senior Director of Strategy at the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), where she spearheads the organization’s comprehensive strategy to drive impactful change for marginalized Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across New York. She oversees policy advocacy, membership and coalition-building, and leadership development programs, ensuring they align with CACF’s mission to enhance the health, well-being, and safety of marginalized AAPI children and families.
With over 20 years of experience driving strategic transformations in the racial and social justice, nonprofit, education, and social impact sectors, Sarah specializes in strategic partnerships, cross-racial coalition building, organizational strategy, leadership development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) capacity building. A Professional Diversity Coach and trained Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator, she leverages her narrative as the daughter of working-class immigrants, caregiver, and satellite child to her professional practice, fostering environments of growth, healing, and transformation.
Before joining CACF, Sarah founded Jayu Consulting, LLC, a strategy coaching and consulting firm dedicated to empowering social impact leaders and organizations to deepen their connections and amplify their transformative impact. As Vice President of National Community Alliances at Teach For America (TFA), she led external engagement strategies with national civil rights and mission-aligned organizations, building intersectional partnerships across Black, Native, AAPI, Latinx, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities. Her leadership at TFA included founding the AAPI Community Alliances, which mobilized and developed AAPI leaders to drive systemic change in education, earning her team national recognition, including the 2018 Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) Community Award and acknowledgment by the California delegation.
Sarah’s career also includes leading programs for the Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMSP) and APIA Scholars, where she supported over 16,000 scholarship recipients and contributed to national research on educational equity for underserved AAPI communities. Her strategic expertise and dedication to community engagement and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging initiatives have consistently empowered communities to achieve transformative change. Prior to serving at APIA Scholars and GMSP, Sarah worked in the Office of the Dean of Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center, and served as an Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator dedicated to creating inclusive, affirming, and diverse campus environments.
She holds a Master of Education in Student Affairs, Higher Education & Organizational Change from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Faith, Peace & Justice from Boston College. She has completed certifications and fellowships with the Coach Diversity Institute, Pahara Institute, Aspen Institute, LEAP’s Emerging Leaders Program, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) National Leadership Academy, and TFA’s New Executive Director Fellowship.
Living on the unceded land of the Lenapehoking (Queens, NY), Sarah is committed to creating equitable opportunities for historically underserved communities, grounding in her core value of collective liberation. She serves on the Advisory Council for Act To Change and volunteers with community organizations dedicated to promoting equity, belonging, and justice.
