Sarah Foster

While leading a hands-on engineering project in her son’s elementary school, Sarah noticed less girls raising their hands or jumping into the activities than the boys. She was surprised to see a gender gap at such a young age and decided she needed to do something to change this! Sarah founded STEM Like a Girl in 2017 with the goal to introduce young girls to exciting, fun, and rewarding activities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Sarah has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University and a masters in biomedical engineering from Boston University. She worked as a Research and Development Engineer in the biotech field before turning to educating youth, specifically girls, and their families in STEM activities and hopes to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. She is the author of the book STEM Like a Girl (releasing September 14th; Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers) that profiles 35 girls expressing their love of all things STEM as well as providing 15 experiments girls can do at home. Sarah lives in Portland, OR with her husband and two young boys and loves being outside enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest.