Sara Mortensen

Sara Mortensen (she/her) is an organizer from Southern California who approaches all of her work from a place of sincerity, curiosity, and unironic enthusiasm. Reading has always played a hugely influential role in Sara’s life and from a young age she has valued the power of storytelling and narrative to change the world.

As someone who has always enjoyed learning as much as she can, Sara earned a double major at the University of California, San Diego – a B.S. in Cognitive Science with a specialization in Neuroscience and a B.A. in Dance – in order to pursue both her passions in science and in art. It was during this time that Sara also studied abroad in Rome for a semester and she caught the bug for traveling and seeing as much of the world as possible.

In 2015, Sara joined the volunteer staff at Fandom Forward, a decision she would say changed her life for the better. From Mental Health Researcher to Campaigns Manager, Sara held many volunteer roles over the years, all of which helped her learn how to be an activist, run campaigns, and do some good in the world while having fun. As Campaigns Manager, Sara worked a lot of magic behind-the-scenes to help various Fandom Forward campaigns run smoothly and she was ecstatic to make it official and join Senior Staff as Campaigns Director in 2022.

Sara combined her love of traveling and love of learning together when she moved abroad to Spain in 2021 to pursue a Research Masters in International Studies in Media, Power, and Difference at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in which her thesis was about how the media in the US has covered the police and prison abolition movements in recent years.

Now back in Southern California, Sara works hard to develop campaigns for Fandom Forward on a variety of issues – from climate change to queer rights to voting campaigns – all in the pursuit of helping the world become a little bit more kind, joyful, and just.