Sarah Boone Martin

Sarah Boone Martin
Biography

Featured on Episode #3

Sarah leads Boone Martin, where she directs public affairs and communications. She specializes in mobile payments and digital currency and focuses on emerging markets. In addition, she is the Vice President of the Digital Currency Council, the leading professional organization for executives in the digital currency industry. She graduated cum laude in political science from Cornell University and holds a master’s degree in international economics.

March 8 is synonymous around the world as International Women’s Day, and as of 2015 cryptocurrency now has its own version, Bitcoin Women’s Day, with sponsorship from major players including BitPay and the Bitcoin Foundation organized by Sarah herself. In addition, she is the founder of Rock the Coin, an organization that engages in grassroots community outreach about bitcoin. Sarah spent ten years overseas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America/the Caribbean as a public policy analyst for the: US Dept of State, US Dept of Defense, USAID, UN, Harvard School of Public Health, and Princeton University.