A native of Chillicothe, Missouri, Sara Mashburn graduated from Truman State in 2013, with a Bachelors of Arts in English and a Master’s Degree in Education with an Emphasis on Secondary English. She has teaching experience in a variety of schools, from small town Catholic schools to German military bases. She even served as an English as a Secondary Language teacher in Thailand for one year. Sara began teaching at Marian in the spring of 2014 as the long-term sub while the previous language arts teacher was on maternity leave. She took on the role full time the following school year.

For the 2022-2023 school year, Mrs. Mashburn will transition to our Director of Religious Education. In this new role, she will be responsible for teaching all religion courses, and planning and facilitating weekly chapel services and other religious based school events.