She was the Workshop Reporter to the plenum for Retained diversity: Maintaining strengths while upgrading informal habitats at the 4th Holcim Forum 2013 held in Mumbai, a workshop respondent at the 6th Holcim Forum 2019 held in Cairo, and was a Lab Operator in L-Lab dedicated to large-scale projects at the Holcim Foundation Next Generation Awards Lab 2015 held in New York City.

She has had extensive teaching experience, was Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Visiting Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the GSD, the University of California, Berkeley, and Nanjing University.

Sarah Graham holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in Art History & Design, a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and ETH Zurich. She began her professional career as an architect in Boston in 1982. She co-founded Angélil/Graham Architecture, adding two additional partners to form Angélil/Graham/Pfenninger/Scholl (agps architecture) in 1990.

Her completed work includes an experimental house in the Hollywood Hills, lunch shelters for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Esslingen Town Center with light-rail station in Zurich, the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, a horse ranch in Topanga Canyon, and the Portland Aerial Tram in Portland, Oregon.

Sarah Graham has been the recipient of several honors and awards, including the 2008 Design Award “Honor Award for Architecture” from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the Portland Aerial Tram project, the “Next LA Award” for the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles from the AIA in 2002, and the “Next LA Award” for Herzo Base with Adidas “World of Sports” 2000 in Germany. Her work has been published in many international journals, including Domus, Architectural Review, Global Architecture, Architectural Record, archithese, Detail, Summa+, T+A, and Houses and Architecture.