Sarah was an Intelligence Analyst and Targeter with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She also served as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi, and was co-author of The Benghazi Committee Report: Proposed Report of the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi in July 2016. The author also led Department of Defense (DoD) research and development efforts to discover, incubate, and deliver innovative data-driven, technology-enabled solutions to answer complex national security challenges.