Sara is professor of oboe at the University of Arizona School of Music and a member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. She is principal oboist of the Grammy-nominated ensemble, True Concord Voices & Orchestra and spends her summers in residence as a faculty artist at the Bay View Music Festival in northern Michigan. As a wind chamber musician, she has performed extensively with the Arizona Wind Quintet, Arizona Reed Quintet, and Bay View Wind Quintet.

Sara's innovative collaborations often explore intersections of music and ecology. She collaborated with dendrochronologist Margaret Evans (UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research) and Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth to commission Pine Chant (2021) for reed trio and electronics, a project inspired by tree-ring data and climate crisis. The piece was featured in For The Wild podcast, the Arizona Republic, Arizona Daily Star, and won "Work of the Year – Chamber Music" at the 2023 Australian Art Music Awards. 

Most recently, Sara helped build a multidisciplinary team that was awarded a 2024-25 $100K Annual Resilience Theme grant, administered by the Arizona Institute for Resilience. The Watershed Soundscape project includes new commissions, concerts, and workshops that explore themes of water stewardship and restoration in the Santa Cruz River Watershed. This work fuses watershed science with sensory experiences to promote educational outreach grounded in Tucson’s unique sense of place. With clarinetist Jackie Glazier and bassoonist Marissa Olegario, she commissioned Resonancia Natural for reed trio, electronics and video art, by composer Carolina Heredia and visual artist Heather Bird Harris. Sara is the recipient of an Artist Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for a solo commissioning and recording project, in collaboration with composer Asha Srinivasan and ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. The resulting piece, Braiding, was featured on CBC Radio in 2020. An advocate for interdisciplinary creative work, she is an affiliated faculty member at the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR).