Board

Sarah Bryer is the founder of Sarah Bryer Consulting, LLC.  She brings more than thirty years’ experience as a facilitative leader, network builder, agent for racial and social justice, and promoter of intersectional and holistic systems change who centers equity in all her work.  She has 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.  She was a Community Leadership Fellow with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation where she explored the use of narrative to promote racial healing and justice.

Prior to her Fellowship, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Juvenile Justice Network for fourteen years.  During her tenure, she created and implemented an intensive and supportive pipeline leadership program for People of Color, the Youth Justice Leadership Institute, to increase support for leaders of color in the youth advocacy space.  She also 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.  She 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.