As founder and principal of Every Museum a Civic Museum, Sarah Jencks works with museums and historic sites to help them articulate their authentic civic missions and issues of field-wide concern, including the upcoming 250th anniversary of the U.S. founding. Sarah is co-chair of the Educating for American Democracy Community Learning Partners task force. For 15 years, Jencks was Director of Education and Interpretation at Ford’s Theatre Society and before that taught middle school. Sarah serves on the boards of the National Council for History Education and Literacy InterActives.