About me
Hi! I’m Sarah Stevenson.
I’ve always been fascinated by how people learn and grow. I earned a BA in Human Biology with departmental honors from Stanford University, then an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. My career began in epidemiological research, and I still approach everything with a scientist’s eye: I want to know what the evidence actually shows. My work draws on CBT-informed coaching, positive psychology and research on high performance.
For the past twelve years, I’ve focused on raising and educating my three daughters, and on understanding everything I can about how children learn and develop. I’ve also taught live online classes at Synthesis, where students work together on complex, open-ended problems with no single right answer, and I have helped beta test its mathematics curriculum.
I love working with ambitious young people and seeing what becomes possible when talent meets agency: the confidence to choose a direction and the ability to pursue it. That’s what Facet Academy is built for.
I’m training as a Certified Youth Resilience Coach through the Youth Coaching Institute’s ICF-accredited course, and I follow the ICF Code of Ethics.
