Sarah Granger is a communications, technology and new media expert as well as a writer, editor, blogger, and public speaker. After beginning her career as a network and systems engineer, Sarah played a lead role in three high-tech start-ups and began advising organizations on technology and online communications strategy. She directed the launch of what Wired News called the "first true weblog to be put up by a politician" while directing Internet strategy for a national presidential exploratory organization, and she continues to work with organizations on technology and new media under the umbrella of FutureCampaigns.
Sarah has written numerous articles, she has edited three books and several columns, she is an active blogger. 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 live blogger. Her publishing credits include Security Focus, The Huffington Post, BlogHer, techPresident, MOMocrats, Digital Landing, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, The Sacramento Bee, Bay Area Parent, SFBayStyle, and ecofabulous. She was a credentialed blogger at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.
Speaking regularly at conferences and workshops, Sarah has been a panelist, moderator and facilitator. For her work as an online organizer, she was featured on the White House Project's voterunlead.org site and at Change.org, and she was recently on "Good Morning America" and the "Digital Politics" radio show. As an expert on a variety of topics, Sarah has been quoted and mentioned online, on TV, radio and in print, including ABC News, the Washington Post, The Mercury News, Mtv Japan, the San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Kos, PBS.org, CBS News and The New York Times.
Sarah currently sits on the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee (SPAC). She was a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society at the U.N. in 2003, and she's a member of the U.S. Association for Computing Machinery Public Policy Committee.
Born and raised in the midwest, Sarah earned an interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan after designing a major called "Technology & Society" and studying creative writing extensively. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995 and currently lives in Menlo Park.