Sarah Harrison (journalist)
Life
Childhood, Youth, and Education
Sarah Harrison grew up in sheltered environment together with her two younger sisters in St Mary's Platt in the English county of Kent. At age 10 she wrote to the British Prime Minister John Major a letter on the subject of homelessness and also received a reply. Her parents, the former England Table Tennis Champion and later manager Ian Harrison and his wife Jennifer, a teacher who allowed her to visit the nearby and very prestigious boarding school as a day pupil Sevenoaks. After her International Baccalaureate in 2000 Sarah Harrison spent a year as a chalet girl in the Alps and then studied English at Queen Mary University in London.
After they had chosen the profession of journalist, she worked first as an intern in 2009 at the Centre for Investigative Journalism, and from 2010 as a research assistant at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. At the City University London, she also graduated.