Sarah Lynn Geiger ’05

Sarah Lynn Geiger has built a career around representation, lobbying, and discussion in the health care industry. As Vice President of the New Jersey Association of Health Plans, Sarah represents the leading health care plans in the state, which cover over seven million state residents. She shared, “We work with our members on important issues facing residents and ultimately work to help ensure that healthcare in the state is affordable and accessible. We constantly battle tough questions for which there is often not a right or wrong answer.”

Sarah is also active in the New Jersey chapter of New Leaders Council, a national nonprofit group aimed at recruiting, training, and promoting the next generation of progressive leaders. She serves as a faculty member of the NJ Young Democrats’ High School Leadership Academy, and she served as Associate Director in the Research Division of the New Jersey Education Association for five years.

Sarah got her political start after college when she began to work on local campaigns, starting with her experience on the fundraising team for the late Congressman John Adler’s (NJ) 2010 reelection race. “We lost that race, but I learned a lot about politics and governing from the Congressman – he was a great mentor,” Sarah said. “After that campaign, I packed up my car and drove down to DC…I enrolled in graduate school at George Washington University, ultimately earning my master’s in public administration, and worked on Capitol Hill for several members of Congress.”

Sarah credits MFS with helping her throughout her career and life. “MFS is where I learned to be an advocate and to use my voice,” she said. “MFS encouraged opinions – developing them and expressing them. It was a safe space to learn and ask hard questions.”

My MPE Memory (2004): “I participated in the Mock Primary my junior year. My classmate Sejal Babaria ’05 and I had an interesting opportunity to debate the merits of the USA PATRIOT Act. We weren’t candidates, but issue advocates…It was a spirited discussion… I recall that it was a really fun opportunity for collaboration and disagreement at the same time – principles that MFS really digs into. Mock Primary makes important, big concepts come to life for a high schooler.”