Sarah Baldwin was born in Chicago and was raised a bi-coastal child—growing up in both Los Angeles and New England. She studied theatre at Bard College and graduated from New York University with a degree in theatre in 1986. She worked professionally as an actress in New York City for ten years. 

Upon the birth of her first child in 1992, Sarah's life changed profoundly and irrevocably when she realized that children were meant to be her life's work. She taught music-and-movement classes for parents and toddlers; began a support and activity group for stay-at-home-mothers; and worked in mainstream preschool settings in Los Angeles before enrolling in the part-time teacher education program at the Waldorf Institute of Southern California in 1996. She completed Waldorf early childhood teacher training in 1999 at Sunbridge College in Spring Valley, NY., and received an M.S.Ed. in Waldorf early childhood education in 2004. 

Sarah taught early childhood classes — Parent/Child, Nursery and Kindergarten — at the Ashwood Waldorf School in Rockport, ME over a period of ten years from 1999 to 2009. She currently serves a member of the Board of Trustees at Spindlewood Waldorf Kindergarten and LifeWays Center in Lincolnville, ME. 

Sarah is also the author of Nurturing Children and Families: One Model of a Waldorf Parent/Child Program, published in 2004 by the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN).