Rachel Sarah is an author and activist who writes to inspire, inform, and ignite young women. 

She became an activist before she knew what the word really meant. At age 16, she was protesting at the Naval Weapons Station every weekend near her home to "Stop the Death Squads” in Central America. 

As a kid bouncing between her divorced parents' houses every other night, communication and organization weren't just skills. They were about survival. She found refuge in the library, where a kind librarian guided her toward books about justice and resilience.  

This is where Rachel found her people: in activist spaces, rooms full of hope, strategy, and the belief that change was possible. These spaces showed her that she had a voice.

The day after graduating from high school, she left home and started at Reed College, but she needed real distance and perspective. So she dropped out and moved to La Paz, Mexico (yes, "peace" is exactly what she was seeking). She taught English, then landed a reporting job that eventually took her to The Prague Post in the Czech Republic, where she continued to work as a reporter. 

This led her to decide to finish that degree. She graduated from The New School in New York City and had her daughter one month later. Suddenly, as a young single mom, she was on her own, searching for resources and finding very few. 

So she created her own. This ignited a pattern she’d return to again and again: if the resources don't exist, build them yourself. 

Her first book, Single Mom Seeking, was born from that necessity. Back in California, she gave her older daughter a sister. Her two amazing daughters remain her biggest loves and fiercest teachers.

When wildfires crept close to their home, a young woman named Greta Thunberg was saying our house is on fire. She listened. For her second book, Girl Warriors, Rachel interviewed 25 climate activists under 25. That led to Climate Champions, where she profiled women climate leaders around the world: policy advocates, scientists, activists reshaping our future.

Then, during the pandemic, Rachel watched women farmers in the Bay Area show up with food for their communities when supply chains failed. Small women-run farms were feeding families, giving away what wasn't making it to grocery stores. For Farming is Female, she traveled the country interviewing women farmers who are “shaking up the field.”

She was drawn to these women because she saw herself in them: women who show up, who persevere, who build solutions when systems fail.

When her marriage ended, she faced years of legal battles that tested everything she’d learned about resilience. She emerged stronger and more committed than ever to this work.

Her work comes from a place of seeking connection, learning, and lighting the way for others.

That's what she’s still doing. That's what she’ll always do.