SARAH LOOMIS
Administrative Assistant
Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability, Environmental
Science and Policy, and the Office of Sustainability
(413) 585–3352
sloomis@smith.edu
Education
BA., Skidmore College, 2007
Sarah graduated from Skidmore College in
2007 with a degree in Environmental
Studies.
She joined the CEEDS team in the Fall of
2011 and has been happily providing
administrative
support,
coordinating
events, and working with students ever
since. She is based in CEEDS but also
supports the Environmental Science and
Policy Program, as well as the Office of
Sustainability.
Sarah grew up in the Pioneer Valley but
spent a few years away living and working
in her adopted city of Philadelphia. While
in Philadelphia she served as an
Americorps VISTA at the Delaware Center
for Horticulture (TheDCH), a non-profit
greening organization. As a VISTA she
built community gardens, taught gardening
classes in a women’s prison, and led a
summer leadership camp for city youth.
She stayed on at TheDCH following her
year of service working as their Reentry
Program Coordinator, which allowed her
the opportunity to teach incarcerated and
recently released women about the field of
horticulture.
Sarah is passionate about sustainable food
(and excited about CEEDS’ Sustainable
Food Concentration!) and in 2009 cofounded Farm51, a small scale urban
growing venture in her West Philadelphia
neighborhood. While she is happily back i
the Pioneer Valley, Farm51 is now entering
its third growing season under the
management of the original co-founder
and continues to make healthy food widely
accessible and affordable.
In her spare time Sarah milks cows at
Chase Hill Farm, a grass fed dairy
operation in Warwick, MA specializing in
raw milk and cheese.