Sarah Stiles is the Academic Director for the Leadership & Ethics program and the Capstone Director for the Law & Society Program.  Professor Stiles teaches in both the Department of Sociology and the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where she specializes in social entrepreneurship and leadership studies. She came to Georgetown after eight years at American University where she was Director of the Leadership Program in the School of Public Affairs.

Professor Stiles uses an interdisciplinary approach to teaching leadership and social change that stresses experiential education. Her courses include negotiation and conflict resolution simulations, teamwork and followership activities, public speaking practice, ethics exercises, lessons in etiquette, as well as classic literature and film analysis. She was the Executive Director of the CoRAL Network (Community Research and Learning) and remains on the Board of Directors. CoRAL is a consortium of local universities that partners with non-profit organizations to direct university resources into the community. She is currently Program Director of the YMCA DC Youth & Government Program, which works to promote civic engagement among high school students.

Professor Stiles earned a PhD in political science from Boston University and a JD from Northeastern University School of Law where she specialized in international law. She studied in Spain as both an undergraduate and graduate student and received an MA in Spanish literature from NYU.