Sara Bernard
Sara Bernard is a former staff writer and multimedia producer for Edutopia magazine, now a freelance journalist and avid international traveler. She grew up in upstate New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, studied abroad in Toulouse, France, and spent the last several years freelancing, traveling, and volunteering in Thailand, Vietnam, India, France, England, Peru, Ecuador, Haiti, and Nicaragua.
First and foremost a writer — and most captivated by the kind of narrative journalism you’ll find in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Believer, the New York Times magazine, and Mother Jones — she’s also an amateur photographer and radio reporter who’s fallen hard for audio as a medium. She spent a year reporting part-time for Crosscurrents on KALW 91.7FM and a summer reporting for the Alaska Public Radio Network. She’s produced radio pieces for broadcast on the National Radio Project’s Making Contact and on KALX 90.7 in Berkeley, along with many audio slide shows for news outlets and nonprofit organizations. In addition to Edutopia, she’s written for Wired, Afar, Ode, Yoga Journal, Adirondack Life, Change.org, KQED’s MindShift, and The Bold Italic, among other publications, about education, travel, food, health, science, art, and the environment. She’s passionate about the power of high-integrity media to inform and inspire and eager to expand her skills in multimedia and investigative reporting at UC Berkeley.