Development Coordinator
gogels@stjohns.edu
Tel: 718-990-5479
Fax: 718-990-8228
Ms. Sarah Gogel, LMSW, is Development Coordinator and Clinician at
PARTNERS since October, 2007. She has her BA in Sociology
from Harvard College and a Masters in Social Work from Yeshiva
University. She has in-depth experience working with diverse
at-risk populations, specifically with trauma survivors, youth, the
elderly and migrants. Ms. Gogel has worked in the fields of
development, advocacy and human rights protection in international
and national organization-from corporations like l'Oréal Recherche
in France to non-profits like Physicians for Human Rights in
Israel, and the International Institute of New Jersey. She is
a native French speaker, is fluent in English and Spanish, and
speaks Hindi and Urdu. Ms. Gogel has worked in India, Israel,
Nicaragua, France and the United States. She is Deputy Director of
Global Potential, an NGO that creates positive socio-economic
change for underserved youth and their communities. In 2007,
she won the Diversity and Ageing award from AARP for her thesis on
social isolation among the elderly in France. Ms. Gogel is
Disaster Mental Health Worker for the American Red Cross of Greater
New York and represents an NGO at the United Nations.