Sarah Sexton Martinez
Ohio University
University of Limerick (UL)
Government
Sarah started a new job at the accounting firm, RSM US LLP. She is a Senior Manager in the Washington National Tax, Tax Controversy Practice. She’ll be assisting clients through IRS examinations and Appeals. She serves mainly middle market clients with a specialty in research credit, industrial and manufacturing sector and life sciences. Previously Sarah served as Supervisory Trial Attorney (Tax), Associate Area Counsel Large Business and International Division at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. She is also an adjunct professor at university of Illinois, Chicago School of Law. Sarah is a 2007 Mitchell Scholar. She received a Master's Degree in Peace and Development from the University of Limerick. Her thesis research analyzed the historical and contemporary socio-political conditions that lead to the election of several left-leaning political leaders in Latin American counties in the early part of the 21st century. At UL, Sarah was impressed by her professors' first hand knowledge of modern conflicts as several had served with UN security forces. Continuing her interest in peace and development, while at law school at Berkeley, Sarah took a number of human rights classes and worked at the school's Human Rights Clinic. Sarah obtained her undergraduate from Ohio University.