Sarah Hassmer leads the Center’s work to increase housing security, and broader economic security, for low-income women, LGBTQ+ people, and their families. Hassmer is responsible for developing and implementing NWLC’s policy goals as it relates to housing, including overseeing research projects, advocacy efforts, and disseminating materials for public consumption.
Prior to NWLC, she worked for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for over six years. While at OPM, she helped create a new government program, the LAB @ OPM, focused on using human centered design to design policies, programs, and experiences responsive to people’s needs through an iterative process involving participatory research, problem framing, prototyping, testing, and refining. She also helped form the OPM Pride Alliance Employee Resource Group and served as a Co-Chair for over three years. Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 2009 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center’s part-time program in 2017.