Sarah’s dedication to science hasn’t wavered since her days of lockers and school lunches.

“In high school, I really just enjoyed science,” she says. “Even through college, it was never my best subject, but I loved learning.”

Biology and microbiology were favorites for the now-product manager over anatomy and physiology and allied health sciences. Generally, though, science triumphed for her over other subjects.

“I knew that’s what I wanted to go into, and I declared my major very early as a [college] freshman and stuck with it ever since,” she adds.

While earning her bachelor’s degree in biology from Peace College in Raleigh, Sarah also interned at North Carolina’s Museum of Natural Science in the research lab as a herpetology technician and in the molecular lab.

Her next role brought her closer to Carolina—within a few hundred yards—as an immunoassay technologist at LabCorp, the healthcare company started by the sons of Carolina’s founder.

Sarah’s experience in biology research and laboratory processes brought her to Carolina in 2015 as a product coordinator on our core product management and innovation (CPMI) team. Three years later, she rose to assistant product manager before becoming product manager in 2022.

Since becoming a product manager, Sarah has focused on expanding Carolina’s product lines in meaningful ways. One of her proudest achievements has been growing Carolina’s offerings for Anatomy & Physiology, helping ensure instructors have the tools they need to support student success in a high-stakes subject. She’s also worked closely with educators and industry professionals to create and source materials tailored to the needs of Allied Health programs—including CNA, nursing, and other career-focused courses—supporting the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Both ventures, ultimately dedicated to getting quality science education to students, offer a hand that Sarah says might have improved her own learning experience.

“We did a lot of hands-on science, but if I’d had a lot of the content that Carolina provides—if my teacher knew that Carolina offers all these infographics and, basically, helpful study material—that probably would have been huge for me,” she says. “To have all that extra content, where it’s already broken down for you and you’re not having to read this huge textbook.”

Still, her favorite product to support teachers is a Carolina branded model that she helped design. At less than a foot tall, the micro torso model is dense with potential: separating into 14 pieces, it features removable organs and exposed musculature, bone, and brain.