Sarah Baillie

Sarah Baillie is the population and sustainability organizer at the Center for Biological Diversity. Her work includes drawing the connection about how human population pressure impacts wildlife and wild places. She focuses on advocating for rights-based solutions to unsustainable population growth, like women’s education and access to family planning resources. She is childfree by choice and has extensive experience communicating about this sensitive topic with audiences large and small. Sarah also works on waste reduction and conscious consumption campaigns. She is an expert in sustainable weddings and author of the Wildlife-friendly Wedding Guide. Her writing has been published in The New Republic, Ms., and Mongabay and she has been quoted as an expert in national publications like Elle. Sarah has a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Delaware, an M.S. in Biology from Villanova University, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Arizona.

Sub-specialities:
I am particularly interested in how human population growth is fueling the extinction crisis and addressing how and why environmentalists have a hard time acknowledging unsustainable human population growth as a factor in the climate and extinction crises. I have given presentations and hosted discussions that address the different barriers people cite when avoiding the population conversation that help people understand how to discuss this topic through a rights-based lens focused on women’s education and empowerment.

I am childfree by choice and can speak to how consideration for the environment factored into my decision.