OpUSA Staff Profile: Meet Sarah Gossage

Meet the faces of our organization! Our Staff Profile blog series will introduce you to the people behind Operation USA.
This month, get to know our new Director of Operations, Sarah!

 

 

NAME: Sarah Luck Gossage

 

HOMETOWN: San Francisco, California

 

WORKING WITH OPUSA SINCE: 1999

 

TITLE: Director, Operations

 

PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: Anything and everything

 

BEFORE OPUSA I WAS: An Actor

 

WHAT I LIKE MOST ABOUT WORKING AT OPUSA: The opportunity to make a difference in the world, no matter how small.

 

CAUSES I CARE ABOUT: The environment, poverty, human rights, injustice…

 

IF I COULD SIT DOWN FOR DINNER WITH ANYONE IT WOULD BE: My father
BECAUSE: He died when I was just three years old.

 

FUN FACTS ABOUT ME:
1. John is my favorite Beatle
2. Once I got 121 mosquito bites at a time
3. I met Fred Astaire when I was eight and still haven’t recovered
4. I hate to be picked up. Really. Don’t pick me up.

 

ON WEEKENDS YOU CAN FIND ME: At my son’s Little League game

 

FAVORITE QUOTE:
“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance” -e.e. cummings