Sarah is currently a softgood engineer at NASA, working across scales and disciplines to fabricate new textile technologies that will further our understanding of the universe. Before NASA, she was researching the future of material design and engineering at the MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group. She is a graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design’s MDes program, where she concentrated in Ecologies with a focus on textiles. At Harvard, she was a teaching fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for the design engineering studio Sustainable Textile Ecologies. 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 material science, textiles and softgood application development. Spanning from theory to fabrication, she is interested in how fiber and fabric architecture may be leveraged for new material futures. 

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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. Her work is held in the private collections of Harvard, Brown and RISD. 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, aerospace, biotechnology and consulting to develop innovative material and softgood products. 

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For portfolio requests, please email ssnicita@gmail.com.

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