PAUL DUNN
Sarah van Gelder is cofounder and editor-at-large of YES! Magazine.
In August 2015, Sarah embarked on a road trip to Native reservations, Rust Belt cities, small Appalachian towns, and ranching communities. This book, The Revolution Where You Live, is the story of that trip.
She also writes columns and articles published in YES! Magazine and YESMagazine.org, Huffington Post, the Guardian, Alternet, the Christian Science Monitor, Truthout, the Dallas Morning News, and elsewhere, and speaks internationally and as a guest on radio and television programs across the country.
Sarah led the development of YES! from a scrappy start-up, operating out of a basement in 1996, to a publication that is nationally recognized for leading-edge solutions to the major ecological and human challenges of our times. The magazine has won national awards for its leadership in covering such topics as the cooperative economy, mass incarceration, neighborhood sustainability, and personal resilience.
She has interviewed Pete Seeger, George Shultz, Fania and Angela Davis, Muhammad Yunus, Desmond Tutu, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader, Tom Goldtooth, and others. She is editor of the books Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference and Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement, both with Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Sarah lives on the reservation of the Suquamish Tribe, where, along with a tribal elder, she founded an organization to combat anti-Indian hostility. As cochair of that group, she collaborated with the tribe to win the return to the Suquamish of the land where Chief Seattle once lived. She currently serves on the board of the tribally chartered Suquamish Foundation and participates with the tribe’s canoe family on the annual canoe journey.
She has also been a radio and television producer, and she cofounded one of the country’s first cohousing communities. Sarah has lived in China, India, and Central America. She is the mother of two young adults.
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