Sarah Morris

Senior Principal

Sarah supports investments in technologies to drive economic development and community growth. 

Sarah is a recognized leader in internet policy issues, and she leverages that expertise to connect people in cities across the country to affordable, high-speed internet infrastructure. She has supported community and state investments in high-speed internet and digital equity projects and has advised state and local governments on key internet policy priorities. 

As the principal deputy for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) at the Department of Commerce, Sarah led the creation and execution of a suite of landmark federal grant programs for high-speed internet, including the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program (BEAD) and Digital Equity Act programs. During her time at NTIA, she also oversaw a number of other federal policies in areas like AI, children’s privacy, public safety, wireless innovation, and data privacy. 

Prior to her time in the federal government, Sarah was the executive director of New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) where she directed the program’s work on a wide range of internet policy issues and built the organization’s portfolio of broadband access and adoption issues from the ground up. Sarah also served on New America’s leadership team, where she drove integration across the organization’s technology-focused programs. 

Sarah served for many years as an adjunct professor at George Washington College of Law and Georgetown Law, lecturing on internet law and policy and legal writing. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and Nebraska Law, where she received a B.A. in English and political science, a juris doctor, and a master of laws in space, cyber, and telecommunications law.