Sarah is passionate about women rights and is a runaway feminist. Her area of expertise is land tenure and property law, human rights especially women rights to land, economic empowerment, food security and poverty reduction. Her gender approach to land rights has facilitated a shift in gender power relations.

She holds an MSc in Land Management and Land Information Systems.

Sarah obtained her law degree from Makerere University Kampala and a postgraduate diploma in legal practice from the Law Development Centre (LDC). She is an alma mater of KTH Royal Institute of Technology were she attained her master’s degree. Her thesis was on “Computerisation of Land registry: Challenges and Implications for the Mailo Tenure Security”. Her doctoral studies which she pursued from University of Amsterdam explored the theme of Transitional Justice and Post Conflict Land Tenure Relations.

Sarah started her legal practice in 2004 as Registrar of Titles under the Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development, defying the norm by working in rural settings in Hoima, Mityana and Buliisa Districts despite most of her peers choosing to stay in urban centres.She has worked on ground breaking new legislation to advocate for equitable land rights in rural settings including Land Amendment Bill 2007 (LAB), where she served as technical coordinator of the sensitization committee for the Western Districts of Uganda. This piece of legislation led to reconsideration of “Tenancy by Occupancy” and restrictions on transfer of family land respectively. She was a member on PSCPII that drafted the” Real Estate Law2009/10” and served as secretary Kampala District Land Board (KDLB) 2010-2012.

Sarah has vast experience in education policy matters and served on the team that formulated the Syllabus for the Survey School in Entebbe, 2007-2009. She sits on Governance Boards of both government and private schools and has worked with Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) on the Country’s Education policy that led to formulation of the new secondary school curriculum. She has also worked with UNICEF, Varkey foundation and Dubai Care in the field of Education Policy. She has worked with the AU Department of Peace and Security under a project in transitional justice, post conflict land tenure relations regarding women and children’s rights to land.

Sarah is currently working as a  research fellow on a project “Analyzing the Land Conflict in Amuru boarder Land conflict in Northern Uganda.” with Prof Anne Mette Kjaer of  the University of Copen Hagen-Denmark- and as a basic researcher on Land Tenure with Transland Denmark International.

Sarah has widely traveled and attended International conventions related to land tenure. She is massively involved in charity work both at the national and grassroots levels as well in her private capacity.