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Sarah Isabel Moe 

Manager, Inclusive Economy Programs 


Phone: 530.214.3835

Sarah Isabel Moe is a seasoned sustainability and climate expert with over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, community engagement, and whole system collaboration. She has successfully led transformative strategic initiatives within municipalities, businesses, and non-profits.  She is deeply passionate about fostering resilient communities and environmental stewardship through meaningful triple-bottom-line development.

At SBC, Sarah Isabel leads the inclusive economy projects in Placer and El Dorado counties, including supporting the Latino community development corporation initiative and Latino engagement in Placer County’s general plan update 2050.  She leads much of SBC’s Tribal relationships and is developing a Tribal economic development strategy in partnership with Indigenous Futures Society as well as the Foresthill Divide Tribal outreach, as part of Placer County’s Wildfire Community Protection project. Over the past several years, Sarah has been the community ambassador for the California Jobs First work in her subregion (Placer/El Dorado County) and will continue to support the Catalyst projects and collaborative We Prosper Together effort. 

In her previous role as the Recycling Supervisor for the City of Folsom, Sarah Isabel played a pivotal role in launching the SB 1383 policies and programs, transforming the community’s food to soil system with the city-wide composting and edible food recovery programs. In her role at the City of Palo Alto, Sarah Isabel was instrumental in the implementation of the climate action plan through innovative financing mechanisms and dedicated efforts on multi-stakeholder collaboration around the decarbonization of buildings and transportation systems. Sarah Isabel has been a bilingual Project Manager, senior consultant, and lead climate action strategist throughout her consulting career, orchestrating systemic collaboration across communities for leading Californian cities such as Santa Monica, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, San Mateo County, and many others.

Sarah Isabel’s dedication to equity and the environment extends from the deep connection she has to her ancestral Earth wisdom traditions, which she shares about in her book and programs called The Sacred Seasons, empowering women to reconnect with nature and their own innate wisdom.  She is a devoted mother and wife, a global adventurer, a gifted writer, and a spiritual teacher.

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CERF

The Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) is a statewide program that was created to promote a sustainable and equitable recovery from the economic distress of COVID-19 by supporting new plans and strategies to diversify local economies and develop sustainable industries that create high-quality, broadly accessible jobs for all Californians.

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