Writer
Educator
Facilitator
Community Builder
Sara Sadek
Sara (she/her) is mother, writer, educator, facilitator and community builder. She spends her days writing, advising mission-driven organizations, facilitating circles for mothers and parents, and visioning alternative systems of care to help us all thrive.
Sara’s the Founder of Folkweaver,a storytelling, art-making and community-building project designed to bridge us from the world that exists to the world we dream it to be. When she’s not working on her own projects or collaborating with other artists, she loves advising mission-driven teams on audacious projects. Her expertise is in supporting mission-driven organizations in education, edtech, social justice, climate justice, parenting,and maternal healthcare.
In her past work, Sara’s advised Fenway Strategies—the premier speechwriting company founded by Obama’s speechwriters—on all things social justice, helped scale non-profits like Girls Who Code and Teach for All in their early days, led her own strategy consultancy for half a decade focused on DEIB & social justice, co-founded a cooperative forest school, and trained as a doula. Sara Started her career as a Teach For America Corps member, teaching 5th grade in West Harlem.
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, exploring practices that allow her to fully inhabit life from an embodied place, 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.
Writing & StorytellinG
She uses writing & storytelling as a vehicle to radically re-imagine our relationship with ourselves, each other, and our planet. She writes narrative non-fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction.
At Folkweaver, Sara collaborates with other artists, writers, and community builders to pair storytelling with art-making, and community building as a means to bridge the world as it exists and the world we dream it to be: one rooted in connection, community, and co-liberation, where all beings get to thrive.
She writes weekly essays, which you can subscribe to at folkweaver.substack.com and is published at Motherly Magazine and Mutha Magazine.
Strategic Consulting
Sara works with with founders and teams on audacious mission-driven projects that work to shape a better world.
She’s spent the last decade consulting and advising cross-industry founders and executives across education, tech, politics, and edtech. Her superpower is her deeply human, relational, care-centered approach, and she brings that to all that she touches.
Applying her strategic advising work into a creative storytelling practice, she brings her capacity to deeply listen and reflect back the essence of what makes an organization unique, and the capacity to support the organization in amplifying that both in their internal programming, structure, and values and with their external branding and storyteleling.
As a BIPOC neuroqueer first-gen immigrant steeped in social justice consulting, Sara actively practices to working with folks from a neuroaffirming, antiracist, and inclusive lens.
Community Building
Facilitating and supporting communities that radically re-imagine 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 decades’ work of experience in this work. She’s co-founded a cooperative forest preschool, facilitated countless parent circles, and most recently, founded Weaving Care,a counter-cultural nature-based connection parenting community for families and young children.
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.
Graphic Design
As an interdisciplinary maker, Sara has a passion for screenprinting and graphic design. You can see more of her work on instagram @folkweaversf.
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.