Sarah Cervantes-Pahm is from Cebu, Philippines. She worked in the poultry industry in the Philippines for more than 10 years as an animal nutritionist before coming to the US in 2005 to take her Master's degree in Animal Science. She worked in the area of determining amino acid digestibility in various soybean products including a high protein soybean variety, fermented soybean meal, and enzymatically treated soybean meal. Her work with soybeans included the determination of reactive lysine in various soybean co-products to determine degree of lysine damage attributable to heating the soybean meals.

In 2011, she completed her Ph.D. working in the area of in-vitro and in vivo energy and nutrient digestibility and hind gut fermentability of novel carbohydrates and cereal grains fed to pigs.

After the completion of her Ph.D., Dr. Cervantes-Pahm served as an animal nutrition advisor for Elanco in Asia Pacific and more recently, as a regional technology lead for Cargill Premix and Nutrition.  Currently, she works as an independent animal nutrition advisor and continues to be an adjunct member of the graduate school faculty at the De La Salle Araneta University.