Sarah Stickney Murphy is the Interim CEO of Acceleraise, a New Orleans-based consulting firm that helps nonprofits and mission-driven organizations build the fundraising relationships, systems, and infrastructure required to sustain ambitious work. A New Orleans native and classical singer, Sarah holds a Bachelor of Music and an MBA from Loyola University New Orleans, with additional conservatory training at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Manhattan School of Music. She has worked on campaigns in excess of $1 billion and personally raised more than $150 million. Sarah is also a PhD student at the University of New Orleans, where her research focuses on labor organizing in the New Orleans music industry, including the history of the city’s musicians’ unions, racial integration, and the policy shifts that reshaped creative work in Louisiana.
