Sarah Friedman Hersh, BA, MBA
Independent
“I have seen how traditional grantmaking models often reinforce a power imbalance between funders and communities. Scattergood takes a thoughtful and innovative approach to avoid this dynamic; I’m particularly excited about the foundation’s participatory grantmaking work, which respects lived experiences as a meaningful source of expertise.”
Sarah Friedman Hersh, CFA, is a mission-driven investment leader with over 15 years of experience aligning capital with financial and impact priorities. Most recently, she served as Head of Sustainable Investing and Senior Equity Portfolio Manager at Wilmington Trust, a wealth manager with roots as a family office. There she advanced the firm's sustainable investing offer, managed a sustainable US equity SMA, and partnered with advisors on client portfolio construction and business development.
Previously, she served as US/Enterprise Head of ESG at Vanguard, where she led the team responsible for Vanguard’s US ESG investment product lineup across asset classes and contributed sustainable investing expertise to enterprise strategy, risk, and governance decisions. In prior roles at Vanguard, she established the firm’s first ESG product management function and led a team responsible for board-level company engagements and proxy voting.
Sarah began her career in philanthropy and government relations. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in international studies from Kenyon College. She is a CFA® charterholder and member of the CFA Society Philadelphia, where she serves on the Sustainable Investing Thought Leadership Committee. She also holds the IFRS’s Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting credential and US SIF’s Certificate in Regional Impact Investing. She volunteers with several nonprofit investment committees working on mission-aligned investing and is a corporator at Walden Mutual Bank.
Fun Fact: I'm passionate about sustainable food systems and always trying to incorporate new knowledge into my cooking & eating habits.