Sarah Wright

About

Sarah is the editor of the Palo Alto Weekly and PaloAltoOnline.com. She is currently writing a book on community wildfire responses in Argentina.She spent most of 2023 researching community-led wildfire mitigation as a U.S. Fulbright fellow in Argentina, working with researchers at the Catholic University of Córdoba, the Physics Institute of Rosario and CONICET, publishing the first of her reporting in The Guardian. Before that, she was a staff writer for The San Francisco Standard, covering housing, transportation and City Hall. She got her start in journalism as deputy editor at the Half Moon Bay Review, a weekly newspaper that serves California's Coastside, where she reported from the unincorporated areas of the paper's coverage. During that time, Sarah also completed a stint working in policy and communications for the People-Centered Internet. In 2019, Sarah completed a southbound trek across the United States along the Pacific Crest Trail. She made the 2,653-mile journey from Canada to Mexico through the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges in just 138 days.Before her summer of hiking, Sarah was a Digital Content Strategist and the Lead Digital Editor at Anne Lewis Strategies, where she wrote and edited fundraising and engagement copy on behalf a wide range of clients — gun control advocacy groups, environmental organizations, members of Congress, and more — to help them carve out a distinct voice in the crowded digital space, boost engagement with their brand, and drive donations, all in the pursuit of social good.Sarah graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 2018, where she studied environmental policy through an international lens and spent her free time writing and copy editing for Georgetown's campus newspaper, The Hoya.While in school, Sarah also served as a developmental editor and writing coach to business school writers publishing their first nonfiction books under New Degree Press, a publishing startup. She also studied abroad at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain, and completed several internships — from the campaign trail to the halls and tunnels of Capitol Hill to nonprofit research at the Environmental Law Institute.