Back to All Staff Sarah O’Hagan Nonprofit leader Sarah O’Hagan is a nonprofit board leader working with leading organizations in the sectors of international humanitarian relief, education and the media. Hagan is vice-chair of the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University, and former chair of the board of advisors of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. As co-chair of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) from 2010 to 2016, and a continuously active member of IRC’s board community since 1998, she has decades of experience working on refugee-related issues ranging from program development, field visits, advocacy and representation to public and private stakeholders, governance and fundraising. She was the founding chair of The Fuller Project for International Reporting, the global nonprofit newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting on women; and is a board member of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Hagan also served from 2016 to 2022 on the board of America Media, the leading Jesuit media organization innovating multi-platform delivery of editorial content for Catholic readers. Hagan is a former reporter, and strategic communications consultant; she holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA with Honors from Wesleyan University, the College of Letters.
