Sarah Colomé

Sarah is a scholar-practitioner, advocate, violence preventionist, and educator who brings a passion for collective liberation to all aspects of her work. She is the Founder and CEO of Collective Futures LLC, and a Senior Consultant for Wayfinding Partners.

Sarah previously served as the Director of the Women’s Resources Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she oversaw the Center’s three key divisions: gender equity, sexual misconduct prevention, and advocacy and support. Here she further actualized her commitment to hooks’ margin-to-center approach to ending violence through the creation of the Embedded Confidential Advisor Model, which centers survivor advocacy efforts in community-based locations central to campus’ most marginalized students. Prior to her work at Illinois, she served as a national technical assistance provider, trainer, content creator, and policy advisor, and technical assistance provider.

Sarah holds a Masters of Science in Public Service Management from DePaul University, and is a trained domestic violence and sexual assault crisis intervention advocate. She currently serves as the Vice Chair for NASPA’s Sexual and Relationship Violence Prevention, Education, and Response Knowledge Community, and is on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education.