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Sarah May Stern is a journalism executive and chair of the board of the Hudson Institute, an American foreign policy think tank.
Stern graduated from Yale University with a bachelor of arts in history in 1981. She also graduated from Harvard Business School in 1985. [1]
Stern began her career at Newsweek. She eventually joined Commentary where she worked until 2010, eventually becoming business director. [2] In 2006, she became the chair of the board at Hudson Institute following her father's retirement. [3]
She is a former president of the Edgemont Union Free School District.
In addition to Hudson Institute, Stern is also a trustee for a number of organizations including The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Winning for Women, and Main Idea, a residential summer camp for economically-disadvantaged girls in Maine. [4] [5]
She was among the leaders sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party following the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's decision to host a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy in the face of Chinese aggression. [6] [7]
In 1986, Stern married Mark Rosenblatt at The Temple in Nashville, Tennessee. [8] Her father Walter P. Stern was a Wall Street executive who preceded her as the chair of the board at Hudson Institute. [9]
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