Experience

Americans for Financial Reform

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director of Policy

  • Feb 2022 - Present



Global Financial Integrity

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Dec 2021 - Present



George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs

• Lecturer

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  Sarah Pray teaches a graduate-level skills course on advocacy and the resource curse. Sarah Pray teaches a graduate-level skills course on advocacy and the resource curse.



EG Justice

• Member Board Of Directors

  • 2010 - Present

  EG Justice works to promote human rights, the rule of law, transparency, and civic participation to build a just Equatorial Guinea. EG Justice works to promote human rights, the rule of law, transparency, and civic participation to build a just Equatorial Guinea.



Open Society Foundations

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Advocacy; Economic Justice Program

  • Jan 2019 - Sep 2021

• Senior Policy Analyst for Africa/ Program Officer

  • Nov 2009 - Dec 2018

  Sarah Pray was the Senior Policy Analyst for Africa in the Open Society Foundations’ Washington, D.C. office for six years. Sarah executed the advocacy priorities of the four Open Society Foundations’ regional offices in Africa. She worked with U.S. government policymakers to promote human rights, free and fair elections and the rule of law in Africa. She then took the role of Program Officer, leading the Foundations' grantmaking work on natural resource governance and trade.



Publish What You Pay

• U.S. Director

  • May 2006 - Dec 2009

  Publish What You Pay U.S. calls for full transparency and disclosure of extractive industry revenue payments and receipts by companies, governments and international financial institutions, in countries of the global North and South. Moreover, we promote the transparency of contracts between extractive industry companies and host governments. Our objectives augment the international Publish What You Pay campaign. Publish What You Pay U.S. calls for full transparency and disclosure of extractive industry revenue payments and receipts by companies, governments and international financial institutions, in countries of the global North and South. Moreover, we promote the transparency of contracts between extractive industry companies and host governments. Our objectives augment the international Publish What You Pay campaign.



Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights

• Program Officer

  • Sep 2004 - May 2006

  At the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, Sarah worked as a human rights attorney promoting corporate responsibility and government accountability around the extraction of oil in Chad. Partnering with Chadian human rights attorney, Delphine Djiraibe, Sarah helped establish the first public interest law firm in Chad, which focused both on the human rights impacts of oil as well as other legal needs of the community. At the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, Sarah worked as a human rights attorney promoting corporate responsibility and government accountability around the extraction of oil in Chad. Partnering with Chadian human rights attorney, Delphine Djiraibe, Sarah helped establish the first public interest law firm in Chad, which focused both on the human rights impacts of oil as well as other legal needs of the community.