Bio & CV

Sarah grew up on a small hobby farm just north of Frankenmuth, MI. Much of her youth was spent coming up with outdoor adventures with her three siblings, helping her dad with all the daily work that comes with owning and managing a chunk of land, or indoors assisting with her mother's latest volunteer project.

After her freshman year of high school, Sarah enrolled in an early college program at her local community college. Initially a music major, Sarah took an econ per-requisite and enjoyed it so much that she switched majors, during which time she interned for the local up-and-coming farmer's market. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with her her B.A. in economics from Saginaw Valley State University in 2015.

Grad school soon followed, and Sarah was able to combine her interest in economics with her agricultural roots at Michigan State University, where she received her M.S. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics in 2017. As an research assistant at MSU, she did work in collaboration with her advisor for the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), working specifically with dedicated bioenergy crop systems and timber residues. Her finished thesis, Timber Residue Supply In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is posted under the research tab, or available through ProQuest.

Since starting on this journey, Sarah has had the privilege of working for a variety of institutions with a growing number of talented individuals. During and after grad school, Sarah returned to Delta College as the instructor of the same courses that initially caught her interest. Post grad school, she interned as a Research Analyst for the international farm assurance program GLOBALG.A.P. in Koln, Germany. She later worked as a USDA Cooperator through North Carolina State University's Center for Integrated Pest Management. Both of these positions involved bridging the gap between economic research and action, something she continues to be passionate about. She accepted a Specialist position back at her home department at MSU in the Extension Center for Local Government Finance and Policy in 2019. Her current projects involve assisting with economic forecasting in the city of Detroit, education and fiscal projects in Flint and other local communities, and rebuilding a strong institutional law and economics curriculum at MSU.

In her free time, Sarah can be found volunteering within her community (updates on her FB page), writing, doing something to do with music, or curled up with a book (though it might be a textbook).

She can be reached at klammers@msu.edu

CV: Please contact klammers@msu.edu with further inquiries.