Green appointed interim director of Pacem in Terris

Sarah Green of Wilmington has been appointed interim executive director of Delaware Pacem in Terris. She will serve in a temporary, part-time capacity during June, July and August, with an opportunity to become the full-time executive director at the end of this term. Green succeeds Shara Smith, who resigned effective May 31 to accept a position in Colorado. 

Green has 15 years of experience serving Delaware nonprofit organizations. Most recently, she served as co-chair of S.A.F.E. Schools Delaware, where she led and cultivated a group of volunteer advocates focused on realizing true equity in New Castle County public schools. Green organized efforts to create racial justice, end the racial and socioeconomic segregation of schools, ensure fair discipline, and eliminate the opportunity gap in local public schools.

In 2007, shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Green and 9th Ward friends co-founded Wilmington’s Urban Bike Project, an innovative effort to promote bicycling in the city and to involve youth in the care and repair of free bicycles. It has grown into a thriving nonprofit headquartered in the city’s former police stables at 1500 North Walnut St., where community members repair their own bikes, take donations of used machines, and sell renovated bicycles to adults and youth. 

After leaving the executive directorship of Urban Bikes, Green served as director of community engagement for Literacy Delaware and as program coordinator for Refugee Integration Support Effort at Jewish Family Services of Delaware. As a volunteer, she helped organize the Unification Project, a social movement to bring together Wilmington’s Triangle, Brandywine Village, and Washington Heights neighborhoods, combating racism and supporting local public schools through empowerment, events, and community gardening.

Green brings to Pacem in Terris her skills in research and analysis, grant writing, volunteer management, community organizing, and board development. She is also an engaging public speaker who is well-known by a wide range of civic and nonprofit leaders, and community volunteers in Delaware.

Green lives with her husband and 7-year-old daughter in Wilmington’s Triangle neighborhood. She can be contacted by email at sg@depaceminterris.org.