Sarah Granby is a social entrepreneur, teacher and nonprofit executive who enjoys being pleasantly obsessed by the idea of world peace. She has found her passion and purpose and will continue on this path for the rest of her life, knowing that true peace lies in doing what you were born to do.
Sarah’s belief is that peace is possible in the next 50- 75 years. We may or may not be around to see the results, but it is our sacred responsibility to build the foundation so that the next generation may succeed in achieving this goal.
Her mission is to create and implement a Business Plan for Peace and educate and inspire others about the very real possibility of world peace in this lifetime.
Her vision is a world in which all people have equality, freedom, adequate housing, healthcare and safety, economic prosperity, joy and fun; all countries of the world support each other in creating and sustaining these goals.
Sarah graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Economics, after which she spent a year in Madrid studying Spanish and living with a Spanish family. She then taught English as a Second Language in San Diego and founded the social enterprise, UpWord, a business that provided English and Spanish language training to adults. She has also worked as the Executive Director of the Linda Vista Multi-Cultural Fair, the Administrative Director of the Linda Vista Civic Association and the Director of Microenterprise Development at ACCESS, Inc.
Sarah has been very active in community service since she was a teen, but highlights include helping to build houses for Habitat for Humanity in South Korea, Mexico, Oregon, California and Georgia, working as a mentor/CASA for Voices for Children and sponsoring “sisters” in Iraq and Afghanistan through Women for Women International.
Traveling and languages are also a passion of hers. She has lived in Spain, France and Italy and has traveled to Australia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Panama, South Korea and Europe. She speaks Spanish, conversational French, is learning Arabic and has studied Korean, Italian and German.
“You are a woman of great vision, uncompromising commitment and amazingly strong sense of purpose….(your final report was) outstandingly well written and magnificently concise and clear.”
-Linda Guzzo, Former Director of Community Economic Development at San Diego State University
“Sarah is truly exceptional…Her organizational and managerial skills are exemplary and her energy endless…She will succeed at what she attempts. As a young woman, she is very grounded in what is important. Sarah has high moral character, integrity and knowledge of self.
-Dr. Anne Lee, Former Board Member of the Linda Vista Civic Association
Sarah is driven by an internal moral compass…She is a person of serious purpose and great personal intensity…a person who approaches complex tasks with a calm, rational mind and a well-practiced method. Her greatest strength is her bottom-line, outcome-oriented approach she takes toward projects.”
-Bob Stewart, President & CEO, Access, Inc
“Well-behaved women rarely make history.” - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich