Pronouns: She/Her

Sara is a mama, community builder, poet, facilitator, and friend. She is a minimalist who strives to generate more joy and impact by simplifying the complex, anchoring in shared values, and homing in on what is most important: people. 

Growing up as a middle child, and a third-culture immigrant kid, she found herself most at home in the nebulous “in betweens,” bridging cultural and generational divides to ensure everyone felt included and their needs were met. She also developed a critical lens and deeper appreciation for the malleability of “cultural norms.” What was a given truth in one cultural context could be completely opposite in another. She realized that culture is something we actively create and it also creates us. 

These perspectives have underpinned her 14+ year career working across a variety of sectors and industries as a strategic operations and culture design practitioner. Currently, through her consulting practice, Joyful Impact, LLC, she supports organizations in considering and activating operational and equity goals together. 

She is also the founder and principal facilitator of The Conscious Collectivist™, a practice dedicated to celebrating interdependence and mutuality. Her work focuses on breaking the cycle of toxic individualism by nurturing sacred desire for growth in spiritually-rooted and community-centered ways. 

Sara holds a master’s degree in business administration, with an emphasis in socially responsible business, from the Lorry I. Lokey School of Business at Mills College. She received her bachelor's degree in sociology and Islamic cultural studies from Pitzer College. She is also an alumna of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs.