Sara Kumar

Sara Kumar is currently a Student Engagement Associate at EdRedesign and was formerly a Research Associate for five years. As a junior at Harvard College concentrating in History and Literature: American Studies with a Secondary in Education, EdRedesign’s mission of place-based work and collaboration extends through her academic pursuits. Sara plans to pursue education law with the hopes of reforming urban public school governance.  

Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Sara’s commitment to cradle-to-career education reform is rooted in attending a secondary institution surrounded by minority, low-income, inner-city schools with spiraling reading and math proficiency rates. Red-lining and a lack of resource access has left the majority of Chicago public schools failing their student-body, and this is a pattern seen nationally across large metropolitan areas. Sara hopes to work with community members and local partners to bridge the gap in quality instruction for disadvantaged youth, both in and out of the classroom.

At Harvard, Sara is a writer for the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review, is News Editor for the Harvard Independent, co-founder of the Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Education, and a volunteer with PBHA’s Cambridge After School Program.