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About Sara Lerner:
At summer camp, Sara Lerner got the "Most Curious Camper" award. She thinks this may have been a veiled way to say she annoyed her camp counselors, but now she knows journalism is a perfect match for the curious.
Sara grew up near Kansas City, Missouri. She got her undergraduate degree in Spanish and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She then spent three years traveling and working abroad. She kept mostly mobile but she did stop long enough to research the cacao plant in the Costa Rican rainforest and to work for an Israeli–Palestinian co–existence group in Tel Aviv.
The "All Things Considered" jingle used to remind Sara of her mom's car. It was always on when her mom picked her up from school. When she thought about her ultimate dream job, it was in public radio. Sara enjoys interviewing people and having the opportunity to probe their minds. She likes audio editing too. Even back in middle school, she got excited about putting the exact right amount of silence between songs on her mix tapes.
Sara began working full–time at KUOW in August, 2005. She produces "Speakers' Forum" and she works with the news staff producing spot news reports and occasional feature stories. In 2007, she received a regional award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her report on bicycle pie jousting. Sara frequently backs up the regular announcing/reporting staff and covers the midday, afternoon or weekend on–air shifts. Sara continues to produce stories for national programs such as "Day to Day," "Weekend America," "Studio 360," "Voice of America" and "Justice Talking."
