Sarah Granger

A nationally recognized innovator in digital media, online culture, and social technology, Sarah Granger is a noted author, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. Her articles and blogs have been read by millions of readers, reaching dozens of countries and translated into several languages. Her work focuses on how the Internet and digital media is changing our lives and our world. Her first book, "The Digital Mystique," was published by Seal Press fall 2014.

Sarah has written hundreds of articles and blogs as well as several scripts and chapters for collaborative books. She has also helped launch over a dozen online publications over the past decade. Her publishing credits include "The San Francisco Chronicle" online at SFGate.com, "Forbes," "Security Focus," "MediaShift," "Spectrum magazine," "Boing Boing," "The Huffington Post," "WSJ.com," and "Harvard Business Review." Sarah has covered all kinds of events – from White House press conferences to New York Fashion Week, and she has interviewed noted business and political leaders. She is known for directing the launch of what Wired News called the “first true weblog to be put up by a politician” in 2003.

As a serial entrepreneur, Sarah has spent more than 20 years launching, building and growing IT, Internet and social ventures, starting with a bulletin board system she published online at age fourteen. She previously founded bComfy, an innovative online software model for ergonomics, and SFBayStyle, an online magazine that surpassed 400,000 readers at its peak. She also played a lead role in Artloop, an online art database company, and Net Daemons Associates (aka NDA, a venture-backed IT services company later acquired by Interliant). As a digital strategist, her company, Leading in Digital, LLC, has worked with companies and nonprofit organizations in multiple countries. She also advises Internet and digital media startups in order to build the pipeline of more entrepreneurs.

A frequent speaker and media commentator, Sarah has been a keynote speaker, panelist, organizer and moderator at numerous conferences including South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, TEDx Bay Area, California Leadership Forum, Stanford’s Innovation Journalism, Startup Women Forum, Tech Policy Summit, the U.S. State Department’s Tech Camp, and more. She also enjoys facilitating trainings and workshops for diverse groups. She also works with academic institutions on papers and workshops, such as Georgetown University, Stanford University and American University.

She has been featured as an information technology and social media expert on "CBS News," "Good Morning America," "RT" and "NPR" and quoted in "The New York Times," "Entrepreneur," "The Washington Post," "PBS.org," and "The Hill." In 2012, she was recognized as one of the “40 Under 40 Rising Stars” by The Silicon Valley Business Journal. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and daughter.