Sara Surani has cross-sector experience working at the intersections of gender equity, health, education, environment, and poverty alleviation. Sara graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies and Global Health and recently completed her Masters in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in China as a Schwarzman Scholar. She is Co-founder of a health education program in South Texas called iConquer focused on educating over 20,000 young children about healthy living as well as Co-founder of a start-up called Nayaraq focused on dismantling gender equity through storytelling workshops.

She has previously spearheaded mental health initiatives in Boston, designed public health programming for the Zika virus outbreak in Nicaragua, implemented programming for a tuberculosis intervention in Peru, and researched maternal and child mortality in Tanzania. She has worked with community empowerment and entrepreneurship globally, collaborating with organizations including the government of Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2018, through a Fulbright Fellowship, Sara worked with remote communities in the Amazon jungle on youth empowerment, education, and public health, and helped start the first public holistic education school in Peru. She is currently working with the New Mexico Department of Health, leading educational training for community health workers across the state and designing strategies to make health care resources more accessible for communities most impacted by systemic racism. She is also co-founder of She is the Universe, a girls empowerment movement with girls from 55+ countries focused on storytelling, mentorship, leadership development, and a global community.