Sara is a native of Preston County, West Virginia. She graduated from West Virginia University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture. While at WVU, she worked for Tathams, LLC as a greenhouse assistant, nursery specialist, and landscape designer. Ms. Saurino had the honor to work as a landscape intern at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater near Mill Run, Pennsylvania. From there, Sara worked for nine years as a project designer and then Landscape Architect for Painter-Lewis, PLC, a small specialty engineering firm in Winchester, Virginia. In 2008 she started her own design practice, establishing Studio On Stony Run, PLLC.

Sara Saurino is a professional Landscape Architect. She currently holds professional Board of Landscape Architecture licenses in both West Virginia and Virginia.