Sara Federman

Sara Federman, M.P.A., is a program associate for the policy team at the Commonwealth Fund, where she is responsible for a variety of duties ranging from grants management, writing and editing, and analyzing federal and state health policy developments related to the Fund’s priority areas. She also provides programmatic support for the Fund’s Behavioral Health initiative. She was promoted from senior program assistant in July 2025. Prior to joining the Fund, Federman served as a program assistant for Public Health Preparedness for Seattle and King County. There, she provided organizational and program management support to public health staff leading the county’s COVID-19 response. She also designed and developed products that were utilized across the department, including a toolkit on conducting after-action reviews of COVID-19 response work and a best practices manual for equitable hiring. Federman earned a Master of Public Administration from American University and a B.A. in psychology from Whitman College.