Sarah Yezzi

Sarah Yezzi is currently the Director of Education, Family & Youth Programming at Edward M. Kennedy Institute. Prior to this, they were a Managing Editor at Pearson, where they led the development of their Social Studies product portfolio from business case through execution. Sarah has also worked as a Manager for K-12 Humanities Content Management at Pearson.

Sarah has extensive experience in coordinating all aspects of cross-functional development efforts, creating and managing project budgets, production schedules, QA plans, and marketing materials. Sarah has also managed the creation, re-use, HTML 5 conversion, and deployment of more than 15,000 assets, including associate content taxonomies and metadata structures.

Sarah has trained and led cross-functional, cross-site teams in the creation of 25 digital, mobile-compatible, state standards-aligned Social Studies courses, including a successful 12-course, bilingual K-5 program that generated $12M in the first year of sales. In addition, they have collaborated on platform-wide feature sets, online community development initiatives, and marketing materials to position products and drive subscriptions.

Sarah Yezzi has a Bachelor of Arts in English and French from Boston College and an Ed. M. in Instructional Technology from Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Sarah Yezzi reports to Caroline Angel Burke, VP of Education, Visitor Experience & Collections. They work with and Tara Rendon - Alumni Relations Manager.