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Sarah Barnes is the Vice President of Marketing Communications for Cook Associates. She is responsible for developing and executing all marketing and public relations strategies for the firm.
Prior to her position at Cook Associates, Inc., Sarah served as a Marketing Project Manager for Chicago-based Discover Financial Services working to launch and market new consumer protection products. During her tenure at Discover Financial Services, she helped manage direct marketing initiatives and spearheaded multiple consumer research projects.
Sarah is currently on faculty at the Loyola University Chicago School of Business, where she teaches marketing to undergraduate and graduate students. She has guest lectured at the DePaul University Graduate School of Public Relations and Advertising and at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana American Marketing Association.
Sarah currently serves on the Board of Directors for Trilogy Inc., a non-profit behavioral health agency.
Sarah's career began in the not-for-profit sector as Director of Marketing Communications for Midwest Young Artists (MYA). At MYA, she helped establish the organization as one of the leading youth music ensemble programs in the United States.
Sarah received her M.B.A. in Marketing from Loyola University Chicago.