Sarah is a graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design’s MDes program, where she concentrated in Ecologies with a focus on textiles. She has been researching the future of material design and engineering at the MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group. She was recently a teaching fellow at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for the design engineering studio Sustainable Textile Ecologies. Before that, she graduated from the Brown | RISD Dual Degree Program, where she received a B.F.A. in Textile Design from Rhode Island School of Design and an Sc.B. in Cognitive Neuroscience with a capstone in Engineering from Brown University. 

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Her work focuses on textiles, material science, and additive manufacturing. She is interested in better understanding the relationship between fabric, architecture, and the environment; spanning from theory to fabrication, her practice works across scales to envision how fiber material systems may be leveraged for a better future. 

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She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Venice Biennale's The Laboratory of the Future, Time Space Existence and Harvard GSD’s The Book in the Age of. At Harvard, she was a Community Service Fellow at IDEO.org and the recipient of the 7th Annual MDes Project Research & Development Award. At Brown, her research was supported through the Guiliano Global Fellowship, the Linda Pei Research Award, the Undergraduate Research and Teaching Award, and the Science Center Fellowship. She is a YoungArts alumni and has received recognition from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the International Design Awards, Fast Company and the Core77 Awards. Outside of her studies, she has worked in academia, biotechnology and consulting to develop intelligent, soft materials for wearable and architectural applications. 

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For portfolio requests, please email snicita@alumni.gsd.harvard.edu.

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