Sarah’s (Ngāti Whakaue) role as Education and Knowledge director is to develop key climate literacy and heritage training pedagogy, with a particular focus on democratizing knowledge, making it more accessible globally and integrating different knowledge systems into heritage practice. She is a trained archaeologist and heritage management specialist, with a particular passion in utilising plural knowledge systems to collaboratively explore and design transformative and equitable adaptation actions and pathways for communities and their heritage. This also includes mobilising the effective power of heritage in wider climate action and justice narratives. She has collaboratively worked on a number of research projects with international organizations (ICOMOS, ICCROM, UNESCO, IPCC), and is also part of ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group, all with a focus on working through the complexities and synergies of climate change action and heritage. She has also taught and developed courses at University of Waikato in the world’s first Bachelor of Climate Change.