Sarah Margon

Sarah Margon is an American political advisor who is the former nominee to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Biden administration.

Education
Margon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science in foreign service from Georgetown University.

Career
Margon began her career as a humanitarian and conflict policy advisor for Oxfam. She later worked as a staffer on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy and as a foreign policy advisor to Senator Russ Feingold. She later worked as the associate director for sustainable security and peace-building at the Center for American Progress and deputy Washington director of Human Rights Watch. Margon has most recently worked as a U.S. foreign policy advisor for the Open Society Foundations.

Personal life
Margon and her husband, Sam Chaltain, married in 2004. They have two sons.