Sara Ehrhardt
Public School Trustee
Toronto-Danforth Ward 15
Sara Ehrhardt (she/her) is passionate about protecting and improving public services and working with neighbours to build a better community for everyone.
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Soon after moving to Toronto with her spouse and their newborn child in 2015, she advocated for better children’s services with community-based organizing.
As a co-founder of Toronto East Enders for Child Care, her advocacy generated national attention and helped lead to government action on creating affordable child care.
During the pandemic, while her son was enrolled in the virtual school system, Sara maintained connection and involvement in the local school, sitting on the Duke of Connaught School Advisory Council in 2020-21.
In 2017, when the neighbourhood pool was threatened with closure due to budget cuts, Sara worked with other parents as part of a Save Our Pool community group to advocate for more swim programming across the east end. When the SH Armstrong/Duke of Connaught pool was saved, Sara went on to co-chair a reference group that worked with city and school staff to deliver facility and program improvements.
Sara, her spouse, and their child live in a little purple house. Beyond serving as the area public school trustee she works full time. She holds degrees in engineering from the University of Waterloo and in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and completed her level 1 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam while serving as an economist at Finance Canada. She took up rug hooking in the depths of 2020, and also enjoys cycling and gardening.​