Dr. Sarah Bennison is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Mattering Movement. The Mattering Movement is a New York incorporated non-profit that teaches students, teachers, and parents what it means to matter by providing tools to identify needs in local communities and the skills to make a positive impact on the world. The Matter Movement seeks to combat the pandemic of loneliness and despair that are harming America’s youth. The Mattering Movement provides practical toolkits of curriculum in order to support teachers and parents in creating environments that make students feel like they matter.

Dr. Bennison is an educational leader, activist and founder of Trinity School (NYC) Office of Public Service, where she led service learning initiatives engaging students, faculty, families and alumni in ongoing, meaningful community engagement work with social impact curriculum. She started her career in New York City public schools in the South Bronx and has more than twenty-five years of teaching and leadership experience.