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Sarah Labowitz
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program

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Sarah Labowitz is currently exploring how climate disasters create openings for movement-based organizing and innovative governance. She is a producer with Untold, a film production company that tells sensitive documentary and narrative stories. Her first feature length documentary, Texas, USA, is anticipated to be released in 2024. 

Sarah previously worked in leadership roles at the ACLU of Texas and the City of Houston Housing and Community Development Department, and was a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of State. She co-founded and co-directed the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 

Sarah is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Grinnell College. She serves on the board of the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations and Houston’s Human Rights Subcommittee for the 2026 World Cup. She previously served as a World Economic Forum Global Future Council member and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was included in Forbes’ inaugural 30 Under 30 list for law and policy in 2012 and recognized in 2017 for her volunteer work during Hurricane Harvey. Sarah lives and works in Houston, Texas. 


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education
MA, Law and Diplomacy, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, BA, History, Grinnell College
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English

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Meeting the Climate Moment Requires a Coherent Climate Disaster Strategy

The reality of a warming climate coupled with increasing urbanization means that extreme disasters aren’t rare anymore.

· May 12, 2023
Just Security
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What More Climate Disasters Mean for U.S. National Security

An increase in climate-driven disasters, particularly hurricanes, results in four major risks for U.S. national security. To address these risks, the government must build a more equitable and responsive national disaster-recovery policy.

· April 10, 2023
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The Great Displacement: Climate Migration in America
March 20, 2023

Join the Carnegie Endowment online for a conversation between Jake Bittle, a staff writer at Grist and the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration.