Sabrina Schaeffer

About Sabrina

Sabrina Schaeffer is R Street’s vice president of Public Affairs. She helps maintain, protect and enhance R Street’s brand by overseeing and supporting communications, outreach and editorial.

Prior to R Street, Sabrina was a senior director for the White House Writers Group. She was also the vice president for The Herald Group. Sabrina spent five and a half years as the executive director of the Independent Women’s Forum. She held events all around the country; published multiple books; appeared in thousands of media interviews; and had a significant impact on the conversation around women and public policy.

She co-authored Liberty is No War on Women: How Big Government and Victim-Politics Undermine America’s Progress (2012) and contributed to Lean Together: An Agenda for Smarter Government, Stronger Communities, and More Opportunity for Women.

Sabrina received her master’s degree in American politics from the University of Virginia (2005), master’s degree in American history from the University of Virginia (2003) and a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College (1999).

She lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband Adam and three kids: Findley, Penelope (Poppy) and Spencer. They have a bearded dragon named T.J. and many fish with complicated names.