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Sarah Strunk

Coauthor, Extraordinary Girls

Sarah Strunk is director of Active Living by Design, a $15.5 million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focuses on the relationship between physical activity, community design, and public health and, more recently, access to healthy foods. In this capacity, Sarah oversees all aspects of program development and operations. She also serves on a variety of national and local advisory committees, including the YMCA’s national Activate America program, and the North Carolina Physical Activity Policy Research Center. She frequently consults within the philanthropic community on the development of programs to foster improved health through environmental and policy approaches to active living and healthy eating. In addition, she is a clinical instructor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.

Sarah has previous experience in strategic planning, business development, operational planning, marketing, and fundraising. She was director of External Affairs and director of Alumni Affairs at the UNC School of Public Health, overseeing corporate, foundation, and alumni relations as part of the school’s $100 million fundraising campaign. She also served in strategic and business planning roles at Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina, and at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Sarah earned a BA in public policy from the Sanford Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke University in 1987 and an MHA in health policy and administration from the UNC School of Public Health in 1991.

She is coauthor of the award-winning children’s book Extraordinary Girls and an avid college basketball fan, and she enjoys hiking, biking, jogging, cooking, and volunteer work.