Sarah Granger is a writer, editor, blogger, and online communications expert. After beginning her career as a network and system administrator, Sarah played a lead role in three high-tech start-ups. She then directed the launch of what Wired News called the "first true weblog to be put up by a politician," she has edited three books, and she has been used by leading news organizations as an expert on Internet culture. Her articles cover a wide range of topics, including technology, politics, business, figure skating, philanthropy and fashion.

Sarah has been quoted and mentioned in numerous publications and media outlets, including ABC News, the Washington Post, The Mercury News, Mtv Japan, the San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Kos and The New York Times. Her articles on social engineering are required reading in computer security courses at universities and in IT organizations around the country and she's known as an excellent political liveblogger. Her online credits include Security Focus, The Huffington Post, BlogHer, MOMocrats, Digital Landing, the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, ecofabulous, SFBayStyle, and Chip Center. She has been a panelist at international conferences, she was featured on the White House Project's voterunlead.org site, and she was recently on "Good Morning America".

A long time member of USACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Public Policy Committee, Sarah has served on the privacy subcommittee and compiled issue position statements and papers. As a nonprofit and political technology and communications project manager, she has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Emerge America and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility as well as national, statewide and local candidates. Previously, Sarah worked as a network engineer, computer security consultant and manager for Net Daemons Associates, Phoenix Technologies, Liquid Audio, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Sarah currently sits on the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee (SPAC), and she recently served on the City of Menlo Park Environmental Quality Commission. Sarah was a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society at the U.N. in 2003, and she represented the State of Kansas in a student delegation to the U.S.S.R. in 1989. Her other nonprofit involvements include volunteer leadership, fundraising roles, and board positions for the Junior League of Palo Alto/Mid-Peninsula, the San Francisco Symphony, Ballet San Jose, the Skating Club of San Francisco, and The William J. Clinton Foundation.

Born and raised in the midwest (Kansas City), Sarah earned an interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan after designing a major called "Technology & Society". While at UofM, she wrote, directed and co-produced what may have been the world's first Cyberpunk stage play. After graduating, She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her husband and daughter.

For more details, see Sarah's bio at sairy.com.