Sandra Sarrouf is a cultural worker, educator, and business owner working at the intersection of culture, art, and justice. Weaving together decades of professional experience in the private and public sectors and drawing on her lived experiences as a Middle Eastern woman who immigrated to the US at a young age; Sandra works to build pathways for meaningful change that support communities across cultures.
She is the founder and Director of Cultural Creations Collaborative, a lecturer at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo and involved in many local initiatives for cultural belonging. As the project director for Our Roots, Our Routes: Living Histories of Cultural Sustainability and Belonging on California’s Central Coast, Sandra brings together her love for diversity in culture and passion to center the traditions and stories of ethnic, immigrant, and indigenous communities.
Sandra has her MA in Cultural Sustainability, is tri-lingual, bi-cultural and builds deep and expansive roots in the multiple communities she works in. She is a mother of 3 and loves to dance, play, travel, and be in the sunshine!