Sara E. Parker is a queer, gender non-conforming writer, researcher, and practitioner working at the intersection of language, power, and ecological imagination. With a background in political linguistics, environmental justice, and narrative strategy, she tells stories across mediums — books, essays, brand campaigns, and public advocacy — to explore how language shapes what we see, who we listen to, and what futures we make possible. Her experience living with a chronic health condition has deepened her understanding of ecological resilience, reciprocity, and disability justice, shaping her perspectives on how interconnected systems of health, identity, and power can inform a more inclusive approach to social change.

Sara has written for nonprofits, grassroots coalitions, and Fortune 500 companies, and has ghostwritten for executives whose bylines appear in outlets such as TIME. She is the founder of Nantahala Strategies, a consultancy that helps movements and institutions translate complex ideas into language that resonates—language that listens.

Her writing appears in Mouthpiece, her research-driven blog on the language of power and change, and Road Trip, a personal chronicle of place, memory, and cultural inheritance. She is currently at work on a series of books examining how language is wielded to dominate, erase, and resist — from legal frameworks to fading regional vernaculars. Whether through storytelling or strategy, she is guided by a belief that justice begins not only with policy — but with the words we choose to speak it into being.