Bio
Sarah Harney,
she/her/hers
Associate Director, Strategic Communications
Sarah Harney (She/Her/Hers) is a mixed Anishinaabekwe. Her family is from Nipissing First Nation on her father’s side and she is of Scottish and Irish descent on her mother’s side. She grew up in Bowmanville, ON and currently resides on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin territory (Ottawa, Ontario).
Sarah holds a Master’s in Communications and Social Justice from the University of Windsor and has over nine years of experience working in communications in various capacities and industries. She has worked for National Indigenous Organizations, for a progressive Communications Agency, and as a Communications Professor at Algonquin College. She is passionate about digital storytelling, community-building, advocacy, Knowledge Translation, and decolonizing communications practices.
In her spare time, you can find her camping, cooking, reading, spending time with her dog, and tending to her garden/plants.