Sarah Bryer

I partner with nonprofit and for-profit organizations to advance equity, learning and growth. For more than thirty years I have worked as a facilitative leader, network builder, agent for racial and social justice, and promoter of intersectional and holistic systems change. I am an experienced, mixed-methods qualitative evaluator, have taught non-profit evaluation courses, and have led working groups on how to use logic models in social justice change efforts.

After decades of experience as a non-profit executive advancing criminal legal system transformation with a focus on policy, programs and the power of networks to accelerate movements, I shifted my focus to improving our means as a necessary precursor to achieving good ends. To achieve that, I provide services in evaluation, restorative conflict navigation, fund development, facilitation, and the integration of inclusive management practices.

Core to my work is how I center equity and racial healing — an approach that was refined through my fellowship with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, in which I explored the use of narrative to promote racial healing. As the founding Executive Director of the National Youth Justice Network for fourteen years, I led the organization and its membership through a multi-year, anti-racist change process that incorporated changes in policy, communications, partnership development and internal operations.

I received a bachelor’s degree with honors and distinction in anthropology from Stanford University and a master’s in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. I currently live in Washington, DC.