Sarah Bella is a Granite Stater originally from the Boston area who holds her state motto Live Free or Die in the highest regard. She earned a B.S. in marketing with a minor in communications from Southern New Hampshire University, which she attended while fighting cancer. She has resided in many other amazing places, but New Hampshire is her home.
With a rogueish attitude and decades of freelance journalism and campaign experience, Sarah’s political writings focus on policy analysis, public relations, psychology, and campaign strategy through the lens of intersectional feminism. She also writes about mental and sexual health, consent and boundaries, gender, ethical philosophy, science, pop culture, and more, often blending them into holistic tapestries that present unique perspectives.
Analyzing and essentializing complex concepts, sloganeering, copywriting, public speaking, and relationship marketing – especially online – are Sarah’s public sector marketing and political campaigning strengths and areas of interest.
She also works as (or has worked as) a podcaster, producer, and singer. Sarah’s DJ/emcee career began in 1997 when she first became a karaoke host. She is still available to perform at private events.
She first got involved with politics in 1991 when she was just 12 years old. That year, she joined the campaign of later Representative Michael Capuano, who was running for mayor in her hometown of Somerville, Massachusetts. Starting as a neighborhood canvasser, she eventually went on to become an organizer for other campaigns, including the lieutenant gubernatorial run of Dorothy Kelly Gay in Massachusetts, and contributed to the presidential run of John Kerry with the New Hampshire Democratic Party in 2004.
In 2008, she went to work for the Young Democrats of America shortly after moving to Orange County, California. With a background in scholastic journalism, she later became a writer, Editor-in-Chief, and webmaster of Orange Juice, a non-partisan political blog.
She was always a small-l libertarian but became a big-L Libertarian and supported Ron Paul in 2009 after the bank and auto industry bailouts in response to the economic crash. She also supported Gary Johnson.
Sarah thought she was retired from politics from 2014 until 2024, when she returned to the fray to oppose Project 2025. While not officially rejoining the Democratic Party, she became a national volunteer leader (“Kamala Captain”), facilitating relational organizing training, teaching people how to speak with friends and family, and on social media, about the election.
In response to Kamala’s loss and the Democrats’ lack of a cohesive alternative media strategy to counter the GOP, Sarah created Live Free & Prosper, an organization dedicated to ethical L/libertarian media activist education and training. She is also a leadership member and co-Webmaster of LPAlliance and co-Editor and Staff Writer at The Torch.
In 2025, she created The Free Congress Project, dedicated to electing L/libertarians to strategically chosen congressional seats, fostering a strong coalition for a revitalized Libertarian Party through a national focus every two years, instead of the usual four.
Sarah is a libertarian market socialist promoting bottom-up free enterprise capitalism that meets our human needs, protects the environment, and prioritizes individual rights such as bodily autonomy, privacy, and property. She will work on issue advocacy with anyone who wishes to advance the cause of liberty, regardless of party.
