Sara Veltkamp

Sara lives in Chicago, Illinois and is a partner and VP at a social good communication firm, Minerva Strategies. She loves a challenge and is obsessed with learning new things, from how to use new platforms and tools for storytelling to languages like Arabic, Spanish, or Farsi. She applies this energy and curiosity to anything she takes on.

Before Minerva, Sara lived for nearly two years in pre-war Syria teaching English to Iraqi refugees, building communication capacity of a Syrian microfinance nonprofit focused on unemployed youth, and further developing her Arabic language proficiency.