Sarah Trone Garriott was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Cloquet High School. Trone Garriott earned a B.A. in history from the College of St. Scholastica in 1999, an M.A. in theological studies from Harvard University Divinity School in 2003, and an M.Div. from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2008. Trone Garriott’s career experience includes working as a coordinator of interfaith engagement with the Des Moines Area Religious Council, as an associate pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Clive, Iowa, and as a pastor of Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bergton, Virginia. She co-founded the Iowa Interfaith Exchange. She has been affiliated with the Lutheran Church ELCA and the Des Moines Area Religious Council Food Pantry Network
