Sarah McIntosh
Senior Associate, Center on National Security
Sarah McIntosh is a Senior Associate with the Center on National Security (CNS), where she oversees the Center’s work on the use of force, human security, and justice. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, where she co-teaches a course on Victim-Centered Justice with Anna Cave. She has expertise in survivor-centered justice mechanisms for mass atrocities that are both comprehensive and transformational. She is the author of CNS’s Victim and Survivor Consultation Protocol and is a founding member of the Atrocity Response Coalition for Justice.
Sarah formerly served as Policy and International Justice Manager at the Ferencz International Justice Initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. At the Holocaust Museum, she authored “Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups,” which has been translated into four languages. She also led the Center’s justice work on South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Sarah has a bachelor of laws and international studies with honors from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a master of laws from Harvard Law School.
