About Sara Sadek

Sara Sadek

Sara Sadek (she/her) is a first generation Egyptian-American immigrant. She’s a mother, writer, strategist, advisor, and community builder living on the Ohlone land known as San Francisco. She writes weekly narrative nonfiction essays and fiction excerpts at Folkweaver.substack.com. She offers strategic storytelling consulting at sarasadek.co, and co-leads a boutique coaching consultancy rooted in nonviolent communication and restorative justice at Attuned Advising. She’s served as a Senior Advisor to Fenway Strategies, the speechwriting company founded by Obama’s former speechwriters, on all things that touch social justice, and helped grow organizations like Teach For All and Girls Who Code in their early days. You can follow Sara on Instagram @folkweaversf



Author Archives: Sara Sadek

The Patriarchal Roommate

October 9th, 2024 | by Sara Sadek

This particular millennial feminist petri dish was fertile ground for a future crash collision between our second-wave feminist ideals and the realities of motherhood


D is for Divorce

August 10th, 2023 | by Sara Sadek

Divorce, assuming shared custody, does what most marriages don't: it protects at least some of a mother’s time from being simultaneously beholden to both the paid work of her profession and the unpaid work of mothering. 



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