Sarah is a community organizer, writer, and creator from Houston, Texas. Currently, they serve as a campaigner at Fight for the Future, a digital rights organization, where she focuses on working towards a democratic web, free of censorship and surveillance. She came to this work from years of youth organizing in reproductive justice, abolition, and South Asian diasporic racial justice movements. 

In their technical experience, Sarah can write for publications, as well as manage social media and digital content for organizations doing advocacy work and grassroots organizing. Sarah specializes in managing online campaigns for issues. She also works in community education—facilitating programming, teach-ins, discussion-based events and panels that integrate social justice and young people. Topics they have facilitated programming for include: abolition of the prison-industrial complex, divestment, Asian American anti-blackness, surveillance and safety as a protest organizer, the model minority racial project, organizing against Hindu fascism in the southern US diaspora, surveillance of the abortion access movement, running mutual aid projects, and more.

In her past community organizing, Sarah has organized against Hindu fascism in the diaspora, worked with student organizers to pressure the University of Texas to divest from the police, and served as campaign manager for the Simona-Lynn student government campaign at UT Austin, which would have been the first women of color student government alliance at the university. 

Sarah formerly served as the lead organizer for the Texas Youth Alliance, a program housed with Advocates for Youth, a non-profit that partners with young people who organize for reproductive justice in their communities. She is the former Director of Operations at the Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective, a student activist organization housed in the Multicultural Engagement Agency at the University of Texas at Austin. She also served as a steering member of the Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct where she was able to push for restorative justice efforts and accountability on the part of professors found in violation of sexual misconduct. She is a co-founder and served as a steering member of the Mutual Aid Collective ATX, where she organized relief for community members impacted by COVID-19, racism, economic oppression, and houselessness in the face of state inaction and repression. 

As a student of ethnic studies, Sarah also spent most of college advocating for ethnic studies programs in the South and the Center for Asian American Studies at UT Austin specifically. She cherishes the time she spent studying Asian American Studies, knows the importance of being one of the few people in the South who can claim to have studied Asian diasporic studies, and brings that knowledge to her work every day.

She has also lived a couple past lives in legislative and government communications, breaking news and political journalism, as well as a bookseller.

At the heart of her work, Sarah is an abolitionist first and foremost, with this framework guiding both her life and her organizing. 

If you would like to contact Sarah for whatever reason, shoot her an email at me@sarahephilips.com

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