Sarah Serpas joined Every Texan in 2024 as a Senior Research & Data Analyst. She brings over a decade of experience in participatory urban planning, demographic research, and community engagement. She holds a deep belief that if you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Sarah grew up in dusty Midland, TX, and living in such a “boom and bust” town sparked her interest in population dynamics. She left the state to live and work in New York City, where she completed her undergraduate degree at New York University and earned a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute. She returned to Texas in 2018 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Applied Demography from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she teaches occasional classes. Two of her favorite courses to teach are GIS for Urban Studies and Social Demography for Public Policy. Sarah lives in San Antonio where she enjoys making jewelry, cooking, and tackling home projects with her wife (with very little help from their cats).
Song of the year: Joyride by Ke$ha
My surprising hobby: Jewelry making and metalsmithing
For many Texas public school children, fall’s usual back-to-school routine has been replaced by a necessary experiment in remote learning. This shift to online instruction has brought attention to an
Para leer este blog en inglés, haga clic aquí. Este es un momento imperativo para el estado de Texas. La fecha límite de respuesta automática para el censo de 2020 se
Para leer este blog en español, haga clic aquí. This is an imperative moment for the state of Texas. The self-response deadline for the 2020 Census is approaching quickly, and
Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved for Texas and the nation as
For health and economy to recover from COVID-19, long-overdue state action to address Texas’ uninsured problem is needed more than ever Texas continues to have dangerously high levels of uninsured
The COVID-19 recession has millions of people struggling to feed their families, pay rent, and make ends meet. Our friends at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities have been
The 2019 Legislature made an important commitment to improving funding for our public schools. But the disruptions caused by COVID-19 have imposed unexpected new costs on our schools, as they
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUtgGuB4UpU Updated August 5th, 2020 — This blog was originally posted on April 22nd, 2020. Versión en español: Acabo de perder mi trabajo. ¿Cómo consigo un seguro médico? In the
Senate Republicans have put forth a proposal to give corporations immunity from lawsuits involving a failure to protect workers from COVID-19 exposure while on the job. This immunity will remove
More than 1.5 million unemployed Texans and their families will lose desperately needed emergency income if the Senate refuses to extend the extra $600 in weekly unemployment payments before the
