Sara Sindija is The Marshall Project’s Director of Major Gifts & Strategy, West, where she cultivates relationships with major donors and leads fundraising efforts on the West Coast of the U.S. Most recently, she served as interim co-CEO and previously as chief finance & operations officer at the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit organization that provides career training and development to formerly and currently incarcerated firefighters. While there, she executed an eight-figure fundraising campaign, and spearheaded organizational growth and innovation. Sindija began her career with Human Rights Watch and continued on with policy advocacy work around extreme sentencing in California. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from UC Berkeley.