Sande Hart is a writer, event producer, coach, and workshop facilitator. She was recently awarded The Nautilus Book Award for her self-published book The Liminal Odyssey, The Alchemical Power of the Spaces In-Between. In 2001 she founded the women’s grassroots international organization The Global Women's Village, formally known as S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope), addressing the fear and intolerance following the events of 911, now the largest and longest-running organization of its kind in the world. She 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, Sande is a Certified Compassion Integrity Trainer from Emory’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, and 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 two 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. In 2025 she launched the initiative The Center for Women Who Future.

 

Sande is a social artist, creating new solutions to old problems through collaboration and wildly creative and impactful programs, initiatives, and campaigns. 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.