FBW Board Profile: Sarah Colker

After graduation in 1981 from Princeton University in Structural Engineering, Sarah worked at Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and Birdsall Engineering in New York City and Philadelphia, designing, rehabilitating and inspecting long span bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge.

In 1988, Sarah and her husband Joe Moskowitz moved to Hoboken, NJ. They both quickly got active in the Coalition for a Better Waterfront, with Sarah frequently registering voters with a baby in a stroller. In February, 1992, Sarah was one of the attendees to the unveiling of the FBW waterfront model, and in the same year was a part of their 1992 lawsuit against the City of Hoboken.

Sarah was on the Board of Trustees for Stevens Coop in 1998. When her 3 children moved to  Hoboken Charter School in 1999, she ran their Annual Fund and created their annual Student Directories and Children’s Resource Guide to Hoboken. In 2004, she helped transition the Charter School to new software programs and created a custom HR program.

Sarah returned to Bridge Engineering in 2007, working for Parsons Corporation (which bought Steinman in 1988). In 2024, she retired from Parsons as a Supervising Professional Engineer. Sarah and Joe have lived in 4 addresses in Hoboken over the years, with their last move in 2000 to Bloomfield Street.

Starting in 2016, Sarah has been active in the Women Transportation Seminar (WTS) which supports women in transportation. In 2018, she joined the Board of the Rockland Astronomy Club and in January 2023, FBW’s Board of Directors.