Born in San Francisco in the 1960s, and growing up in Berkeley and Oakland, Sarah was raised in a world of unabashed color. Her architect father and artist mother took her to the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park when she was five. She attended an Arts Magnet elementary school, and at home her mother always kept an art or craft project in progress on the dining room table. By age 10 she was making her own holiday cards, a practice she has done faithfully every year since. By high school she knew graphic design was her most marketable skill and for college she chose Cal Poly San Luis Obispo – partly for their design program, and partly for the beauty of the landscape. During a year off after her first year of college, Sarah started doing paste-up at a newspaper, and the rest of her education was on-the-job. Perennially curious, she viewed any new assignment as a challenge to learn, and she advanced organically from newspaper paste-up to Studio Manager to Creative Services Manager at a marketing agency, all while raising a family. A debilitating illness forced her from the agency world and compelled her to take stock of her trajectory – the first of many lessons on life’s fragility. She began working freelance, designing identities and websites for sole proprietors, who sometimes referred to her as a “website doula” for the way she compassionately coached clients to articulate their unique offerings. At age 50, her freelance practice gave her the freedom to move from California’s Bay Area to Philadelphia to be “Mim” and help care for her newborn grandchild. More recently, her agency experience and passion for communicating have landed her work as a Creative Director at a training agency, designing science and soft skills curriculum materials for sales professionals.