As a digital content and communications strategist, she worked with organizations and leaders implementing innovative processes and systems to elevate content marketing, communications, influencer engagement, and community outreach. She helped several startups with content and communications projects pre-acquisition and trained nonprofit leaders in the use of social media. Named one of the Silicon Valley Business Journal “40 Under 40” rising stars, Sarah was awarded the New Leaders Council’s 40 Under 40 Award for Media Leadership and the CampaignTech Innovator Award.

Sarah’s book, The Digital Mystique, was published by Seal Press (now a Hachette imprint) in 2014, honored by the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and became an Amazon bestseller in Media & Communications. She also contributed chapters to Diplomacy, Development and Security in the Information Age and Ethical Hacking, and she edited five books on digital government, mobile security, cryptography and biometrics.

As a journalist, Sarah has interviewed notable leaders and influencers, including Oscar winners, presidential candidates, and Fortune 500 CEOs, covering special events including White House press conferences, New York Fashion Week, and major awards ceremonies. Her articles have been published in numerous publications including Slate, The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Ms., The San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate), LA Weekly, and NBC Bay Area, syndicated at MSNBC.com, Forbes.com and WSJ.com. She has been a media trainer for two U.S. State Department programs.

Sarah’s scripts have been produced for web video shorts and digital video interviews. In 2018, she returned to screenwriting and her feature, pilot, and short screenplays have been finalists and winners in competitions in the U.S. and internationally. Her feature screenplay, THE PAIN-FREE DAY, is the winner of the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Filmmakers with Disabilities Grant and was selected as one of eight juried scripts on the 2020 Disability List curated by The Black List and the WGA Writers with Disabilities Committee. Her pilot, WHITE HAT, was selected for the 2023 Athena Writers Lab and earned Sarah the inaugural Loreen Arbus Fellowship for 2023-2024. She was a 2021 RespectAbility Entertainment Lab Fellow and one of her projects was selected for Stowe Story Labs in 2022.

She also produces occasional projects. She is an associate producer on TELOS, a short, available to view online. She is an executive producer of STAY WITH ME, an ultra low budget feature and an associate producer of CHAT, both now at festivals. She is also an associate producer of KANSAS 1989 and CHAT and an executive producer of a U.K. filmed short, SMALL TALK, both in post-production. She has worked on pre-production, on set, and post-production.

A frequent speaker, Sarah has been featured at a wide range of conferences including South by Southwest, the 3% Conference, Women in Film and Video, Exceptional Women in Publishing, Innovation Journalism, the Nonprofit Technology Conference, and the California Leadership Forum. She has been a lecturer at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, American University, the Middlebury Institute, and Penn State University. She has been a guest on CBS News, NBC News, Good Morning America, and NPR and she has been quoted in The New York Times, Deadline, Entrepreneur, ABC News Online, and The Washington Post.