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Sarah Waltcher

Election Year: 2017

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: New Hampshire & St Hilda's 2017

Sarah Waltcher

Biography

Sarah A. Waltcher, graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 as valedictorian. She is currently a Teaching Resident in sixth-grade science at Brooklyn Prospect Charter School in New York City. An English major, she has taken her academic interests into an array of community and activist projects, including non-profit organizations such as Telling My Story and Breakthrough New York that bring teaching in the arts and literature to underserved communities. Both her scholarly work and her work as a student activist at Dartmouth have addressed issues including the environment, sexual violence, and race. Sarah writes extensively.