Sara Jane DeHoff is devoted to social and emotional learning and impacting 21st-century learning by improving reading and language comprehension. She founded the Young Artists at Work Program (YAAW), a part of the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo. Ms. DeHoff also founded the Women's Initiative of the United Way of Greater Toledo and has served on the board or committees for the Toledo Symphony, the Toledo School for the Arts, and the Toledo Ballet. In addition, she has been active with the Toledo Valentine Theater, Maumee Valley Country Day School, and the Black Swamp Conservancy, among other organizations in northwest Ohio. In capital campaigns to support the Museum, DeHoff has helped to build the Glass Pavilion and to establish the Toledo Museum of Art’s Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP). DeHoff has served on many national boards, including the Alliance of Artists Communities in Providence, Rhode Island, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, the Lake Placid Land Conservancy, and the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities, in Lake Placid, New York. She holds a BA and JD and has worked as an attorney, social worker, real estate representative, and chair of the board of Cephalon Corporation.