Sarah Shourd

Sarah Shourd is an activist, journalist and playwright based in Oakland, California. Most recently, she released a podcast about bridging divides across America called Of Two Minds. Before that, Shourd wrote and produced a play called The Box based on her 3-year investigation into solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. She also co-authored an anthology called Hell is a Very Small Place,  a memoir called A Sliver of Light and had written for many publications such as the New York Times, SF Chronicle and the Daily Beast. Shourd was a UC Berkeley Visiting Scholar, a recipient of GLIDE Memorial Church's 2016 Community Hero Award, a Ragdale Artist in Residence, and is currently a John S. Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University. More more info see sarahshourd.com