Sarah Lerner has been teaching since 2002 in Broward County, Florida. She has been a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School since 2014. Lerner advises the nationally award-winning Aerie yearbook & The Eagle Eye newspaper, and also teaches senior English & Intro to Journalism. She was the 2014 Sun-Sentinel High School Journalism Teacher of the Year, 2019 Gold Key recipient and 2020 Special Recognition Adviser from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, as well as the 2019 Woman of Distinction from national sorority Alpha Xi Delta. Lerner was the editor of and a contributing writer for "Parkland Speaks," published by Random House and released in Jan. 2019. She received the 2025 Gold Medallion from FSPA for her work in scholastic journalism. She is a co-founder of Teachers Unify To End Gun Violence & hosts the Teachers Unify Podcast. She has been married since 2004 and has two teenage children.
You can follow her on Threads at @mrs_lerner & BlueSky @mrslerner.bsky.social; read her blog, Life Long Lerner; explore her book, "Parkland Speaks," and follow Teachers Unify To End Gun VIolence on all platforms.