Sara Sadek
Writer
Artist
Community Builder
Sara (she/her) is a writer, artist and community builder focused on this central question: how does reconnecting to ourselves, each other, and our planet pave the pathway to our collective liberation?
She writes weekly at Folkweaver, where she examines that central question of reconnection through narrative nonfiction essays, and is working on an an archival memoir called Hummingbirds and Other Magic. You can find her work published in Motherly Magazine, Mutha Magazine, and HTH Unboxed.
When she’s not writing her own work, she helps mission-driven folks cut through the noise and tell a good story through her consulting practice, Attuned Advising.
Sara served as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies—the premier speechwriting company founded by Obama’s former speechwriters—on all things social justice.
She is first and foremost an insatiable learner, forever connecting dots across disciplines to weave together the world she wants to live in. When she’s not deep in a work flow, Sara might be voraciously reading, making sand angels or driftwood forts on the Norcal beaches with her kiddos, building countercultural community spaces, or learning all the tools she can to design, create, make, and express in many forms.
She is an Egyptian-American immigrant living in the unceded Ohlone land known as San Francisco with her partner, two kids, and their ridiculously cute dog
Through intimate tellings of motherhood, relationships, and carework, Sara works with narrative nonfiction as a vehicle to radically reimagine connection as our primary pathway to our collective thriving. She writes weekly narrative nonfiction essays on her Substack, Folkweaver. She’s working on a an archival memoir called Hummingbirds and Other Magic, and is currently seeking an aligned agent to partner with. You can find Sara’s essays published in Motherly Magazine and Mutha Magazine and HTH Unboxed.
When she’s not working on her own projects, Sara strategically supports founders, leaders and teams in telling their stories.
Writing
Advising
Sara coaches and thought partners with visionary founders and leaders to tell their stories and cut through the noise to reach who they need to. She offers:
Storytelling & positioning
Narrative strategy
Narrative coaching
Sara’s spent the last decade supporting cross-industry founders and executives in tech, politics, education and nonprofit spaces. Her superpower is her deeply human, relational, and care-centered approach, which she brings to everything she touches. She served as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies for four years, a speechwriting company started by Obama’s former speechwriters.
Sara practices an multi-modal, embodied, relational coaching framework that supports leaders and their team members thrive together.
As a BIPOC neuroqueer first-generation immigrant steeped in care-centered consulting, Sara actively practices working with folks through a neuroaffirming, nonjudgemental, inclusive, care-centered lens.
Community Building
Facilitating and supporting communities that radically reimagine our relationship with young people, each other, and the earth is at the heart of Sara’s praxis and the way she gives back to her communities.
Sara has over a decade of experience in this work. She’s co-founded a cooperative forest preschool, facilitated mothers’ circles, postpartum parenting in COVID circles, moon gathering circles, and parenting circles in various forms to support parents in doing the inner work that helps them radically reshape their relationships with their children.
She currently facilitates inner child meditation circles in collaboration with Emily Smith, which you can learn more about here.
She supports community builders through 1:1 coaching and strategic advising.
Sara unapologetically and unequivocally stands up for and speaks out in solidarity with Black liberation, LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice rights, indigenous justice, Palestinian justice, sovereignty & freedom, immigrant rights, disability justice, and more broadly, with every historically oppressed people in our collective quest for co-liberation.