Sarah Hansen recently joined Architectural Heritage Foundation as a Project Manager. She is assisting in the redevelopment of the Pemberton Mill and the Morehouse Bakery project in Lawrence, MA. Sarah is also focusing on preservation consulting on both current and future projects. She is extremely passionate about the revitalization of small communities, and believes firmly in the economic impact of historic preservation.

Prior to joining AHF, Sarah worked at Colorado Preservation, Inc., Colorado's statewide non-profit preservation group where she served as Preservation Projects Coordinator, managing the rehabilitation of a 1950s airplane hanger and a 1890s second-empire mansion, as well as overseeing the Endangered Places Program. From 2004 - 2006 Sarah worked at the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Mountains/Plains Office in Denver. At the Trust, Sarah focused on a wide variety of preservation issues in South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. Sarah also spent time in Washington working on development projects instate, as well as in Idaho and Montana.

Sarah graduated with Honors from Connecticut College in 1997 with a degree in history and certificates in Museum Studies and Community Action & Public Policy. In 2003 she received her Master of Arts degree in Preservation Studies from Boston University. She is a good-humored native of the State of Maine, and a proud resident of AHF's most recent success story, the Washington Mills Building No. 1 in Lawrence.