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Sarah K. Spreitzer joined Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC in 2008, bringing with her a professional expertise of K-12 and higher education policy issues and leadership within the higher education community. She focuses on funding for federal student aid, international education, workforce and economic development, humanities, immigration policy, and social science issues.
Ms. Spreitzer works closely with clients to advance their priorities on Capitol Hill and in the Administration. She monitors and analyses research opportunities at the Department of Education, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Through her leadership roles in the higher education advocacy world, Ms. Spreitzer has worked to set strategies that have made a legislative impact. Specifically, she helped shape the recent reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. These leadership roles include chairing key working groups regarding higher education and the humanities for the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). In addition, she has served as the vice chair of the AAU Council on Federal Relations (CFR) steering committee and currently serves as the Co-chair of the APLU Council of Government Affairs (CGA).
Before coming to Lewis-Burke, Ms. Spreitzer served as the Assistant Director of the University of Washington’s Office of Federal Relations. She received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Beloit College in Wisconsin and a master’s in Medieval Studies from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.