Sarah Morris

Sarah joins Waxman Strategies from the Department of Commerce, where she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and the Deputy Administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). At Commerce she oversaw the full programmatic portfolio for NTIA, including the agency’s historic $45 billion Internet for All grant programs, $1.5 billion Wireless Innovation Fund, National Spectrum Strategy, public safety communications, and wide range of domestic and international policy work.

Prior to serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Sarah was NTIA’s senior advisor for broadband, where she was instrumental in standing up and implementing the BEAD, Digital Equity, and Middle Mile programs. She led the NTIA’s broadband mapping efforts to ensure the FCC’s modernized broadband availability maps could be appropriately leveraged for the BEAD program’s determination of state-by-state funding.

Before her time in government, Sarah spent more than a decade at New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI), where she built the organization’s broadband access and adoption portfolio from the ground up, and ultimately led the organization’s full suite of research, advocacy, and technical analysis and development as OTI’s Executive Director.

Sarah has long served as an adjunct professor of law at both Georgetown and George Washington Law schools. She holds a B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a J.D. and LL.M. in space, cyber, and telecommunications law from Nebraska Law, where her thesis explored privacy and security concerns related to the electric smart grid.