Sara Bigger directs budgetary activities, communications, public relations, and reporting for the Project and provides strategic oversight. She has a BS in Mathematics with an Education minor from Marquette University and an MA from The Divinity School of the University of Chicago. After a first career teaching mathematics and religious studies at the secondary level, she has worked in fund raising, grants administration, and student services capacities at the University of Chicago, among other positions. She is active in the Hyde Park community as a volunteer and has launched and nurtured a number of community initiatives.