Sara Wilf is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. Sara’s dual streams of scholarship include (1) youth sociopolitical action on social media and within social movements, with a focus on youth organizing around the climate crisis; and (2) community-engaged research with survivors of sexual violence, using research to drive advocacy work. While at UCLA Sara co-founded the student organization Survivors + Allies, and co-led the first research study of survivors across all 10 UC campuses. She is a Faculty Research Associate at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center and an Advisory Board Member at Kuviraa.

Previously, Sara was a program evaluator, teacher, and facilitator with nonprofits and schools in India, Chile, and the U.S. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from UCLA, an MPA in Social Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA from Brown University.