SARA SINCLAIR

Phone: 646-233-7200 * Email: sara.e.sinclair@gmail.com * Web: www.saraesinclair.com

 

EDUCATION

 

2013-2014 Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University (October 2014)                                    

2009-2011 Bachelor of Arts, “With Great Distinction” Athabasca University

1999-2001 Associate of Arts Degree (Theatre Performance) American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC, USA 

 

ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH, INTERVIEWING & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

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Voice of Witness, September 2024 - 

• Program Coordinator, Storyteller Initiative Fellowship Program 

Columbia Center for Oral History Research, April 2022 - 

• Project Director, Aryeh Neier Oral History Project 

Columbia Center for Oral History Research, April 2020 – 

• Interviewer, NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive 

Whitney Museum of American Art, February 2020 - 

• Researcher/Interviewer/Editor, Lenape Oral Histories

Columbia Center for Oral History Research, October 2019 -

• Researcher/Interviewer, Obama Presidency Oral History Project

Museum of the City of New York

• Saturday Academy Educator, "Native Lives: Our History, Our Stories," November - December 2019 

Voice of Witness Fellowship, VOW Story Fund Initiative, June 2017 –

• Interviewer/Editor, original book of non-fiction, “How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America”

Columbia Center For Oral History Research, May 2014 – May 2017

• Program Manager, Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project

• Principal Researcher, Interviewer and project manager, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, November 2013 - May 2014         

• Research, design and conduct a pilot oral history project for the New York City Water Board

      Fales Library, NYU, Exit Art Closure Project, November 2013 – May 2014       

• Supported by grants from Booth-Ferris and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

• Research, design and conduct oral history interviews with 20 of alternative art space Exit Art’s principles (curators, artists, funders, employees, members of the board) 

      International Labor Organization, Regional Office for Africa - Addis Ababa, ‘Century Project,’ 2012-2013

  •  Collaborated with the Communication & Public Information team to initiate, facilitate and manage the Century             Project’s oral history component

Spiderwoman Theatre, ‘Violence – The Next Generation,’ May 2013

• Conducted live transcription of the rehearsal process

• Created a working script text document to preserve the improvised theatre created during rehearsals

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TEACHING

 

Lecturer, Oral History Masters Program, Columbia University, Spring 2021, Spring 2022 

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PUBLICATIONS

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A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices. Edited with Stephanie Sinclair (Penguin Random House Canada, forthcoming August 2025)

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You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People. Edited with Stephanie Sinclair (Tunda/Penguin Random House Canada, forthcoming July 2025) 

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Who We Are: Four Questions for a Life and a Nation. Edited with Murray Sinclair & Niigaan Sinclair. McClelland & Stewart 2024.

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Indian Country Showed Up to Beat Trump. How Can you Show Up for Indian Country? The Guardian. November 26, 2020. 

 

How We Go Home: Voices from Native North America. Voice of Witness/Haymarket October 6, 2020.

 

Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History. Edited with Peter Bearman & Mary Marshall Clark. Columbia University Press, August 2019.

 

SELECT PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

 

Amplifying Oral Histories of Resistance, Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University, Summer Workshop Series on Anti-Oppression and Oral History, August 2020

 

Editing Oral History, Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University, One-Day Oral History Training Workshops, May 2020.

 

Say It Forward: Empathy & Ethics in Oral History. Workshop. Oral History Association, 2019

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Interviewing Immersion, Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University, One-Day Oral History Training Workshops, May 2019.

 

Thinking Like An Oral Historian, Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University, One-Day Oral History Training Workshops, January 2019

 

Oral Historians: Honoring the Treaties We Make with our Indigenous Narrators. Roundtable.Oral History Association, 2018.

 

Designing & Managing an Oral History Project. Oral History Master of Arts, Columbia University, One-Day Oral History Training Workshops, May 2018.

 

Cross Cultural Approaches to Interviewing, Activism and Research. Columbia Center for Oral History, 2017. Summer Institute: Oral History and Aging: Transmitting Life Stories of Being and Becoming Across Cultures and Generations.”

 

Blanks, Blips or ? How to Handle Deletions in Oral Histrory Audio Files? Roundtable. Oral History Association, 2015.

 

How We Go Home: Second Generation Memory and Education in Native American Communities. Columbia Center for Oral History, 2014. Summer Institute: “Second Generation Memories & Stories.”

 

Oral History, Storyweaving & Documentary Theater. Columbia Center for Oral History, 2013 Summer Institute: “Telling the World: Indigenous Memories, Rights and Narratives.”

 

INVITED TALKS

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Brooklyn College, October 2020

Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), France, November 2020

Columbia University, November 2020

TEDx College Park, March 2021

Haverford College, March & April 2021

Bard College, April 2021