Sara Carlson
Legal Counsel
Current
Ms. Sara Carlson joins the Eradicate Hate Board of Directors bringing more than two decades of government service focused on counterterrorism, intelligence, and technology, to contribute to advancing the mission of Eradicate Hate.
Most recently, Sara served as the legal counsel for a technology startup based in Australia
focused on providing open-source intelligence tools to government and private clients. Prior to that, Sara served as the Deputy General Counsel for Analysis, Technology, and Science in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Office of the General Counsel. While assigned to the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Sara served as the primary legal advisor to the Director and the Center on domestic terrorism and as the primary legal advisor to two directorates. In addition to her time in the Intelligence Community, Sara served as an active-duty Army officer in both deployed and garrison environments retiring in 2021.
A native of rural Ohio, Sara earned a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military
Academy at West Point, New York, and her law degree from the Pennsylvania State
University’s Dickinson School of Law at University Park. Sara also has a Master of Laws in
Military Law from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville,
Virginia, and a Master of Laws in National Security Law, with distinction, from the
Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she recently served as an
adjunct professor teaching in the National Security Law program.
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
