Sande Hart is the founding president of S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) since 2001, the world's largest and longest running women's interfaith organization in the world, now known as The Global Woman's Village, home of Women Futuring a New Paradigm. She is the author and Nautilus Book Awardee for The Liminal Odyssey, The Alchemical Power of the Spaces In-Between. 

Sande​ is an award-winning leader in the fields of women’s empowerment and interfaith community building for the past 24 years. With more than a decade of study and activism in the field of compassion, She is the founder of Compassionate California, the first State of Compassion in the world. Sande served on the Women’s Task Force for the Parliament of The World’s Religions for three years, and in 2023 she produced the first Woman’s Village at the 2023 global conference with a reported 7,000 attendees from 70 countries. Sande is a mother and grandmother, dedicated to actualizing systems of Partnership for the next seven generations. She is a social artist, creating new solutions to old problems through collaboration and wildly creative and impactful programs, initiatives, and campaigns.

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Sande's the recipient of U.S. Congressional Recognition, the International Bowes Award, and the O.C. Human Relations Commission Community Hero Award.

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Every project, initiative, and organization Sande has envisioned into being is a result of her capacity to pay attention to those spaces and opportunities in-between the seams. She has an uncanny ability to recognize what is missing in any given solution, as well as how to maximize every effort. With a passion to dismantle patterns that keep us recycling old problems, and coupled with her passion and skills, Sande’s projects and initiatives make measurable impact at the community and global level.