From disconnection to connection

From disconnection to connection

I’m a Storyteller, culture worker, and strategist helping people and organizations move from isolation and fracture toward authentic connection, sustainable relationships, collective care and mutual thriving.

Let’s work together

Organizations

When teams are fractured, leaders feel isolated, and your mission feels disconnected from your reality, I support through an approach of deep listening, care, and a seasoned skill of bringing people together.

  • I support mission-driven startups and nonprofits in crafting compelling narratives.

    Startup support:

    • Shaping narratives that resonate with investors, customers, and early adopters

    • Translating complex products or services into clear, human-centered stories

    • Developing messaging for launches, pitch decks, and first commercialization

    Nonprofit support:

    • Vision and mission articulation

    • Narrative alignment

    • Strategic narrative approaches to op-eds, speeches, thought-leadership pieces

    • Website copy strategy

    • Campaign messaging and content development

    • Annual reports and impact narratives

    I also offer narrative coaching to help leaders tell their stories.

    Like all of our services, my coaching model is steeped in empathy, deep listening, and collective care.

  • Leading through acute times is hard work. Whether stress or fracture, I show up with empathy and care to help your team find alignment, resolution, and repair.

    Through 1:1 and leadership team coaching, I work with a multimodal approach that includes mindfulness, somatic experiencing, parts work, nonviolent communication, and restorative justice to support your team.

  • I support mission-driven teams in developing strategies and operations rooted. in and impact. I support with:

    -Strategic planning

    -Recruitment and hiring

    -Development efforts

    -Operations

    -Project-based work

Individual Coaching

For those feeling stuck, disconnected, isolated, or ready to imagine a different way forward, I’m here to hold a steady, loving container to help you do your work.

  • Through 1:1 coaching, I hold a grounded, compassionate container to support you in care-centered leadership.

    I offer a multimodal approach centered in mindfulness, somatic experiencing, nonviolent communication, restorative justice, and a lens of equity and care.

    Whether you’re stressed with the load, navigating team misalignment, facing conflict with your founder, or just needing a place to land and reflect, I’ve got you.

  • When connection feels hard, or you’re looking to deepen your commitment to connection-based parenting and relationships.


    Our society is designed in a way that is anathema to humanity’s natural instincts to connect. If you’re looking to deepen connection with your kids or partner, reimagine expansive ways to view family, or navigate conflict, separation, or divorce from a place of deep connection, I’m here to help.

    This coaching is for caregivers who want to:

    • Center connection instead of control.

    • Move through conflict with clarity and dignity.

    • Reimagine family structures beyond the nuclear model.

    Together we’ll create practices that support your family’s flourishing and your own grounded presence.

  • When you’re feeling stuck or ready to commit to your creative practice
    Being blocked doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means you’re tangled in systems that keep us silent and exhausted—capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism.

    This coaching is for anyone feeling creatively stuck who wants to:

    • Reconnect to their creative voice and imagination.

    • Move through creative blocks with relational, liberatory tools.

    • Root their practice in care and collective flourishing.

    • Move through career or life transitions from a place rooted in creative capacity and intuition.

    Together we’ll build rhythms, quiet the inner critic, and reclaim creativity as an act of liberation.

  • Let’s break through isolation and grow the muscles needed to weave community.

    Building community is tender and messy work—but it doesn’t have to be lonely.

    This coaching is for new or seasoned organizers, leaders, and community-builders who want to:

    • Map and nurture their ecosystem of belonging.

    • Develop practices that sustain collective accountability.

    • Navigate conflict in ways that deepen, rather than fracture, relationships.

    • Learn how to build robust, sustainable, healthy communities

    Together we’ll design care-based strategies to build community that lasts.

Writing & Learning Community

I write and lead a learning community at Folkweaver, examining reconnection through narrative nonfiction essays. You can find my work published in Motherly Magazine, Mutha Magazine, and HTH Unboxed.

  • I’m a narrative nonfiction writer and essayist exploring how reconnection — to ourselves, each other, and the planet — paves pathways to liberation.

    I’m also working on a young adult fantasy novel and multiple nonfiction book projects, including an acrhival memoir called Hummingbirds and Other Magic.

    I’m currently seeking aligned representation for both my YA and nonfiction projects.

My story

Hi! I’m genuinely so glad you found your way here. My life’s work is to co-create a world of care—doing the meaningful, often messy human work of shaping a future rooted in our collective liberation.

I’m a mother and writer, partner and friend, immigrant and sister, facilitator and community builder working to radically reimagine how we relate to one another.

For the past decade, I’ve advised and coached cross-industry founders and executives in parenting and education, tech, and politics, including serving as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies—the speechwriting firm founded by President Obama’s former speechwriters—on issues of social justice and equity. A quiet tug at my core called me to align my liberation-based politics with my daily actions, and that’s the work you’re finding me in now.

I earned my organizational chops scaling movements like Girls Who Code and Teach For All in their early days. I earned my radical, connection-based parenting and education chops through a decade of mothering, co-founding a cooperative forest school, training as a homebirth doula, and serving on Brightworks School’s pedagogy committee. My career began as a Teach For America corps member, teaching 5th grade in West Harlem.

I am, first and foremost, an insatiable learner—forever connecting dots across disciplines to weave together the world I want to live in. When I’m not deep in a creative flow, I’m likely reading, making sand angels or driftwood forts on the Northern California coast with my kids, building countercultural community spaces, or learning every design and making tool I can get my hands on.

I’m an Egyptian-American immigrant living on unceded Ohlone land (San Francisco) with my co-parent, two kids, and our ridiculously cute dog. As a BIPOC, neuroqueer, first-generation immigrant steeped in social justice, I practice and teach through a neuroaffirming, antiracist, inclusive, care-centered lens.

Care is my superpower

I’m a bleeding heart. I can’t help it. I feel the world and that is a blessing and a responsibility. I know this world of extraction is not the way. Whether through storytelling, strategic advising, coaching, or spaceholding, my superpower is that I deeply, truly care, and am here alongside you working to shape the world we know is possible.

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Nice things people say

“Sara has a rare and beautiful gift for guiding people to unearth their power—to speak truth to power and craft the authentic narratives that fuel bold, transformative movements. In a world that demands courageous leadership rooted in empathy and sustained by community, Sara meets the moment. She helps people lead from their most compassionate, grounded selves. Personally, she’s not only made me a better politician, but a better mom and a better human being.”

— Francesca Hong

Wi State Assembly Member

representing Downtown Madison

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“I’ve worked with Sara on several extended projects that involved many highly invested stakeholders with differing perspectives and under circumstances that were initially fraught. Sara has a rare combination of deep EQ and sensitivity to interpersonal dynamics and a deep knowledge of techniques for actively building trust and alignment to enable groups that started off as lower trust to build deep rapport and work together effectively to make major decisions and to collaborate on a shared vision.

I’ve not worked with anyone with such a deep skill set in navigating complex group dynamics, and it felt like a super power throughout these projects having Sara in my corner to brainstorm, strategize, reflect, and plan how to unstick processes and move a group forward productively.

Sara is an expert at reading the room, authentic facilitation skills, honoring people and relationships in a work context, and all of the communications and emotional dynamics of work. She took several situations that seemed almost impossible to resolve and found a path forward that healed the group dynamics, built trust, and kept projects moving forward productively.

Sara is an amazing leadership coach, a thoughtful and skilled sounding board and guide, and has an excellent eye for thoughtful leadership and communications during a crisis. Anyone wanting to build trust, navigate a crisis situation, or develop as an authentic leader would be so lucky to have her in their corner.”

— Laura SKelton

Ex-Engineering Manager, Airbnb

Board member, Electra

“Sara has shown up in literal rain or shine to mirror, validate, and empathize with our triumphs and challenges. I have learned so much through Sara's modeling and deep insightful reflection. Sara’s ability to weave her skills and hold space for us to show up in true vulnerability has transformed my life.”

— Sara Van Acker

Co-Founder SF Birth Center

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“Sara has a remarkable gift for crafting compelling narratives that bring an organization’s mission to life. Her words don’t just inform—they elicit connection, and create a vivid picture that draws the audience in and fosters genuine engagement.”

— Lisa Nowel

Founder of Recess

Director of Marketing at Brightworks

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“Sara is a natural, heart focused, intuitive leader and the one to beautifully teach us how being in community is done.”

— Jen Madanat

San Francisco Midwife

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“I can’t say enough good things about Sara - she is a revolutionary, magical person who brings so much of deep, transcendent value to the world”

— Noe Venable

Community Leader

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