When Sarah was a young girl, she fell in love with her grandmother Liza's stories of teaching in Egypt. Today, Sarah ElRaheb-Dagher is an adjunct lecturer of public policy, educator, leadership coach and pedagogy specialist who has taught thousands of individuals globally the power of purpose-driven, heart-led leadership. Sarah focuses on education as a tool for personal, political and organizational change. She has spent the last decade teaching, training and designing courses alongside Dr. Marshall Ganz through Harvard Kennedy School, including helming an adaptation of Public Narrative for Executive Education, and adapting Organizing courses for Stanford University and CUNY based on Ganz's pedagogy. She has led over 200 courses, projects and workshops working with mayors, community leaders, executives, TED Talk speakers, international women political leaders, and many more from organizations and institutions such as the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Nike, Vital Voices, LEGO, Harvard, the El Hibri Foundation, Brown, MIT, and the University of Toronto. Previously, she was a founding member of an arts education nonprofit in Toronto called UforChange which received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee award during her tenure, where she focused on creating innovative arts programming and pathways to post-secondary education for youth. Sarah holds a Master's degree in Education with a focus on the arts from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Sarah is the founder of Ellb Education, which is a tribute to her grandmother. When she is not working, Sarah is a loving mother and partner, a writer, and a lipstick aficionado.