Sara chandler

Strategist & Writer

Sara believes the future of civic life depends on infrastructure designed for interdependence — the kind that makes us feel like neighbors, stewards, and active participants.

SOCIAL FUTURES

DISTRICT 3

ABOUT SARA

Sara is a strategist, program director, and writer whose work explores the social systems that take shape along physical infrastructure. Sara designs and implements initiatives that invite change and become embedded, examining the social, civic, and relational systems that support our built environment. She brings a love of historical context, a skill for facilitating difficult decision-making, and a commitment to programs that are responsive, durable, and grounded in place. Sara holds a Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law and a BA from Emory University, where she studied English Literature with a concentration in the Literature of Marginalized People.

INTERESTS

Civic infrastructure, belonging, environmental justice, systems thinking

VISION

To make the capacity for imagination and connection more visible, more accessible, and more rooted in collective civic life.

SF Welcome Department FIeld Office

A Public Experiment in Belonging

Have you been formally welcomed to San Francisco? Most people haven't. The San Francisco Welcome Department was established in response to a longstanding oversight: people move here every day, but very few receive an invitation into the city's social life. The Department exists to make three things felt: