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Sarah Gerard is the Project Blogger and Project Coordinator for Art Not Hate as well as a freelance writer with published works in Creative Loafing, Examiner.com, the Tampa Bay Times (tbt*), St. Petersburg Times, Beach Scene and Beatlick News. Sarah has worked for most of her career in special education and the non-profit sector, where she feels she can best serve her community using art as a tool to teach tolerance and understanding. Through hands-on collaboration with arts and social service organizations, one-on-one community outreach, and collaborations with other artists, Sarah has worked to promote St. Petersburg as a community of tolerance, founded in the arts, where people of diverse backgrounds can convene to share ideas and promote understanding.
Raised in Florida, Sarah earned her BA with honors in British and American Literature and Secondary Education from Hofstra University on Long Island, New York. Sarah is currently working on a collection of thirty short stories entitled Usi and a full-length novel, Elephant Tracks, detailing her travels along the east coast of the U.S. from July–September 2007. In June of 2009, Sarah co-founded and became Programs Director of The PinkCricket Center for Arts Education, a non-profit, youth arts center in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, which offers a multidisciplinary arts curriculum to students in kindergarten through fifth grade, and a gallery and performance space for student arts events.
Watch Anatomy of Anger, on which Sarah served as project manager.