Sarah Loose
Template:TOCnestleft Sarah K. Loose is an Oregon activist. Sarah Loose is a popular educator, community organizer and oral historian who has lived in Oregon since 2004. She first fell in love with the power and practice of oral history when facilitating a participatory oral history project with rural popular educators in Santa Marta, El Salvador. Originally from Minnesota, for the past ten years Sarah has been romping around the woods, coasts and mountains of the Pacific Northwest, interviewing and organizing for economic, racial and environmental justice alongside rural progressives, immigrants, people of faith and low-income workers.
She is the founder and co-coordinator of the Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change network. After 2 years as a staff organizer at ROP, Sarah left to get a Masters in Oral History from Columbia University in 2010 and now coordinates ROP’s Rural Organizing Voices oral history project. Sarah worked closely with ROP’s Founder, Marcy Westerling, to document and share the stories, lessons, organizing tools and wisdom amassed through ROP’s 23-year history of grassroots organizing in rural and small town Oregon, made available through Rural Organizing Voices.[1]
ROP Staff
Rural Organizing Project staff, as of 2015;[2]