Sarah Lee is Slover Linett’s senior associate focusing on the museum sector. She joined the firm full-time in 2009 after working with us for five years as an academic research associate.

Sarah is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, where she also earned her master’s degree. She brings advanced skills in quantitative analysis, statistical interpretation, geographic data mapping, and other social science methods to her work on museum marketing and membership studies and exhibit and program evaluation.

Sarah has led or contributed to projects with the Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Brookfield Zoo, in addition to many other arts, culture, and education research studies.

Sarah’s academic work is divided between examining the role of the arts in urban and community development and analyzing the regulation of residential mortgage lending. She is the author of “Preferences and Purchase Behavior: Survey Evidence on the Relationship between Stated Interested in the Performing Arts and Ticket Purchase History,” a Mellon Foundation-funded analysis of data from Alan Brown’s survey of arts audiences for the Major University Presenters consortium. She co-authored the University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center study, “Chicago Music City: A Report on the Music Industry in Chicago.” She has also written on the arts and culture workforce and the economics of historic preservation.

Sarah was selected in 2003 as a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center, where she helped organize the first Emerging Scholars in Cultural Policy Conference.

She graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in government. While an undergraduate, Sarah co-founded and edited a political magazine, Common Conscience, and received the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Award for academic achievement.