Sande Hart is an award-winning leader in the fields of women’s empowerment and interfaith community building. She founded the women’s interfaith international grassroots organization S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) the morning of 911, an instinct to gather women of diverse faiths to protect all that they consider sacred. Having spent the past 19 years as President and public face of S.A.R.A.H., Sande is actively engaged in leadership in the peace, interfaith, compassion, indigenous peoples, community building and women’s empowerment sectors. She founded and served as director for the international organization Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls sector, served as Chair for the United Religions Initiative for North America and serves on the Women’s Task Force for The Parliament of World’s Religions. She is also the Founder of Compassionate California, which recently became established into law as the first Compassionate State in the world by the governor’s office. Sande has conducted countless workshops and produced major and smaller events in more than seven countries, presented on panels in universities, global and local organizations, and city and state level institutions including a historic project at a women’s prison. She has also had the honor of offering keynote addresses and currently presents regular l y on podcasts and social media webinar platforms.

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Sande is currently being inducted into the Women’s Oral History Archives for Claremont Colleges in California. Above all, Sande is a mother, grandmother, wife, aunt, and sister from the steep seaside cliffs in Southern California.

Like the readers she attracts, Sande is a seeker. As she shares in the introduction to The Liminal Odyssey, “I figure this is just an idea that has been floating in the Universe, waiting to bump into, and burrow into someone who was a perfect specimen, with a combination of life experience, suffering, wild adventures and insight; one who felt this exploration as a bigger responsibility to ride and/or follow until it became meaningful. Once it identified me as a ripe recipient, it picked up speed and accelerated in my direction. As this concept was hurtling through space, it collected particles of other philosophies and wisdom from those I have personally had the privilege to bump into in my life so far. The moment it hit me, it appeared as a satisfying feeling, the one you get when placing the last piece into a puzzle creating a complete picture.”

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This is Sande’s first book, with exception to the children’s workbook Make A Difference 101.

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Sande has been featured, interviewed, or written chapters in others’ published books and can be found on SandeHart.com including:

What Happens When Women Converge (2021) by Patricia Fero, author of What Happens When Women Wake Up, Mining for Diamonds and The Other Side of The Door

Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power (2014 ), Skylight Paths

Sacred Stones: How the Power of the Earth Can Change Your Life (2004) by Maril Crabtree, Adams Media

The following articles by Sande Hart have been featured on global platforms:

“The Problem of Women in America”— S.A.R.A.H. blog

“What is a Compassionate City?”—The Excellence Reporter

“Partnership in Actions: The Alchemical Power of Circle”—The Center for Partnership Studies

“Let Them Eat Cake”—The Compassion Games

“Collaboration, Cooperation, Co-opitition”—The Interfaith Observer

“Love The Hell Out of This Place with Rev. Jim Lee”—The Compassion Games

Archived Talks on The Shift Network World Peace Library

Archived Publications on The Interfaith Observer