Sara Sadek
Writer.
Educator.
Advisor.
Sara Sadek (she/her) advises, writes, and collaborates with people and teams working to radically reimagine education as a practice of collective freedom. Specifically, she collaborates with folks working to radically question what educating should look like: people that deeply trust learners’ innate curiosities, people that actively honor and protect agency, people that see education as a practice of liberation. Sara predominantly works in the fields of alternative education, edtech, AI in education, and famtech, though also supports interdisciplinary organizations thinking deeply about teaching and learning.
Sara 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 advising or writing, Sara might be voraciously reading, learning practices to fully inhabit life from an embodied place, picking up a new language, 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.
STRATEGIC Advising
Sara consults and advises people and teams radically reimagining education, teaching, learning, and parenting: anyone thinking expansively about how to be in relationship with young people.
With two decades of experience in education, learning design, and organizational strategy, Sara is a seasoned advisor steeped in radical educational pedagogy, supporting teams pushing up against current educational constructs from a liberation-based lens. Her educational philosophy is rooted in radically trusting the innate capacity of learners as active drivers of their learning process, and is informed by liberation-based theorists like Paolo Freire, bell hooks, John Dewey, and Audre Lorde.
Prior to focusing her consulting practice on education, Sara spent half a decade advising cross-industry founders, executives and their teams on strategic organizational design rooted in antiracist and inclusive practices. During that time, she served as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies, a speechwriting company started by Obama’s former speechwriters. Before that, she helped scale organizations like Teach For All and Girls Who Code in their early days. She started her career teaching 5th at PS 161 in West Harlem as a Teach For America corps member, which left a profound impact, shaping her current views on how to truly create antiracist, inclusive, and liberation-based education.
As a BIPOC neuroqueer person with a background in social justice consulting, Sara actively practices to working with teams from a neuroaffirming, antiracist, and inclusive lens.
COACHING
Sara works 1:1 with founders, executives, educators and community leaders radically reimagining how to be in relationship with young people. She works with tech founders rethinking education, with nonprofit leaders working with parents, families, & children, wtih community leaders forming microschools, and with parents looking to parent in connection and non-coercion.
With half a decade in coaching experience, Sara approaches her coaching practice from a place of deep, embodied listening and somatic attunement. She works to build deep, authentic relationships founded in trust and compassion, supporting clients in navigating their journeys from a deeply supportive place.
Sara uses narrative non-fiction to weave the personal and the political. She writes about radically re-imagining our relationship with children, each other, and our planet, in education and beyond. She sees rethinking parenting and education as a critical components of a liberation-based re-imagining of a world she wants to live in: one that connects us to ourselves, each other, and this planet so we can all live in freedom.
She writes weekly(ish)essays, which you can subscribe to at Rearing Humans and Radical Matriarch, and is published at Motherly Magazine and Mutha Magazine.
Writing
Content DESIGN
Sara’s spent nearly two decades designing content for adults and children alike. She is the co-founder of Rearing Humans, where she collaboratively designs parenting and education courses for those on a journey of radically re-imagining how to be in relationship with children. She’s built out and implemented comprehensive DEI coaching curriculum for executives, designed and facilitated teacher training and program management team training content for rapidly growing organizations like Girls Who Code, designed comprehensive onboarding curriculum for the rapidly growing global team at Teach For All, and designed project-based curriculum for her 5th graders at P.S. 161 in New York where she served as a Teach For America Corps member.
Most recently, Sara served as Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies, a speechwriting team started by Obama’s former speechwriters, where she supported the team on all things that touch social justice. Sara’s content design approach centers user-centered design principles, nonviolent communication principles, restorative justice, and liberation-based pedagogical frameworks. As a neuroqueer immigrant, she works from a neuroaffirming lens and prioritizes working with BIPOC folks, LGBTQIA+ folks, and Women-led people and teams.
Praxis
Founding and leading communities that radically re-imagine our relationship with young people is at the heart of Sara’s radical education praxis.
Sara has over a decades’ work of experience in this work, most recently in building Weaving Care, a counter-cultural connection parenting nature community for families and young children: a microcosm of the world we want to live in. Prior to founding Weaving Care, Sara co-founded an outdoor cooperative preschool called Wild Roots, which her eldest child attended. She’s 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 lets them radically reshape their relationships with their children.
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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.