Sarah Sloane serves as the division chair for Social & Behavioral Sciences. She is also a member of the full-time faculty, teaching courses in both the Criminal
Justice and Physical Education departments. Sarah has been a member of the full-time
faculty since 2012, but joined the Trinidad State team in 2010 as an assistant softball
coach. At present Sarah sits on college council, faculty council, and student emergency
affairs committee. She’s also a member of the booster club and is the co-chair of
the Las Animas County Victim’s Assistance and Law Enforcement board. Sarah’s professional
memberships include Alpha Phi Sigma, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and
The Colorado Association of Career and Technical Education.
Prior to her career in higher education, Sarah worked for mTuitive Inc. a software
firm that specializes in synoptic reporting and healthcare informatics. Sarah, along
with industry experts in human factors and medicine, created xPert for Pathology,
a CAP compliant workstation for surgical pathologists. In addition, Sarah spent several
years as a member of State Farm’s National Catastrophe Team where she travelled throughout
the United States helping policyholders recovered from various natural disasters.
During this time Sarah taught courses on insurance policy, served as a team manager
and an arbitration representative, routinely handling multimillion dollar claims.
Prior to her employment in disaster response, Sarah worked in State Farm’s Special
Investigation Unit, where she examined and serviced claims suspected of being fraudulent.
Sarah is also a part-time deputy with the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office.
Sarah Sloane holds a BA in Criminal Justice from Franklin Pierce University, a Master’s
in Criminal Justice from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and an MA
in Human Performance and Physical Education from Adams State University. She is also
a licensed helicopter pilot. Her research interests include intimate partner violence
and the school to prison pipeline.
