Sarah Legg is a fundraising professional, disability advocate, and strategist whose work sits at the intersection of disability rights and culture and systems transformation. She brings nearly two decades of experience in fund development, program strategy, and community partnership building across the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest.
She previously served at Providence Health & Services as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations and Senior Program Strategy Officer, where she led multi-million-dollar philanthropic and government funding strategies across behavioral health, rural health, health equity, workforce development, women’s health, and research. Her fundraising leadership roles have included small community-based human services organizations and large research institutions.
Sarah was the project lead for Providence’s inaugural Accessibility & Disability Inclusion initiative and worked to embed disability inclusion across operations, digital experience, population health, and clinical environments. Sarah co-hosted One in Five, a podcast exploring the structural barriers and lived experiences of disabled people within the healthcare systems.
Sarah holds an M.A. in Disability Studies from the City University of New York and a B.A. in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara. In her free time, she is a cellist and practices a place-based spirituality rooted in the ecology and history of Sonoma County, California.