Sarah Kozak

Director, Alumni Relations and Undergraduate Associate Program Lead, Rutgers Summer Service Internship (RSSI) Initiative, M.P.A. public administration, Rutgers University; Graduate certificate student affairs and higher-education administration, University of California-Berkeley; B.A. sociology and secondary education, Rowan University.

Sarah Kozak directs the Eagleton Undergraduate Associates and manages the Eagleton Graduate Fellowship – both interdisciplinary core education programs in American politics and government for Rutgers students university-wide. She serves as main academic liaison for the Institute and facilitates teaching, visiting and faculty associate appointments and promotion and tenure processes.   

Kozak leads President Holloway’s Rutgers Summer Service Internship (RSSI) initiative for Eagleton, oversees the partnership with Career Services, and serves on the RSSI Steering Committee.

As director of alumni relations, Kozak creates and implements engagement and development strategies for more than 2,100 education program alumni in collaboration with Eagleton Director and Director of Development.

Kozak joined Rutgers in 1996 and Eagleton in 2006. She previously served as assistant to the dean of outreach and extension programs for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences/Rutgers Cooperative Extension and coordinated a National Institutes of Health training grant for the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Kozak lives in Monroe Township with her rockstar family, is an avid supporter of music/the arts, and advocates for disabled communities.