“She who writes best, wins.” ~Sarah Bella
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 holds 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 left her heart in San Francisco.
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 safety, gender, philosophy, science, pop culture, and more, often blending them together 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 and singer. Sarah’s DJ/emcee career began in 1997 when she first became a karaoke host. She has since owned two entertainment businesses.
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 the presidential run of John Kerry with the New Hampshire Democratic Party in 2004.
In 2008, she then went to work for the Young Democrats of America to help elect Barack Obama 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.
Sarah thought she was retired from politics until 2024 when she once again raised her social media profile and became a Kamala’s Captain, facilitating relational organizing trainings teaching people how to speak with friends and family about the election. She is currently building Live Free & Prosper, an organization dedicated to non-partisan voter and activist education and training at the intersection of the grassroots, technology, and media.
Sarah is a libertarian socialist promoting a bottom-up free enterprise system that meets our human needs, protects the environment, and prioritizes individual rights such as bodily autonomy, privacy and property.