While Sara has been a TEDx speaker twice, her most recent talk was entirely centered on poetry and the value that being a poet has added to her life.
The talk will be linked soon after it is posted on the official TEDx site!
Honors
TEDx Youth @ Milton High School Speaker on "A Quest For Little Eureka Moments" 2023 Women of Distinction from Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta 2022 TEDx Youth @ Milton Avenue Speaker on Daring Perspectives: Computation and Mental Health 2022 Invited speaker for virtual event on mental health to inspire and inform Taiwanese Youth 2022 Georgia Governor’s Honors Program Alumni in Communicative Arts, Machine Learning, and Programming 2022 Top three finalists in Saguaro Poetry Manuscript Prize amongst 186 international mostly-adult entries 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award Recipient; awarded only to one junior in the 2023 class of 450 students 2022 1st Place National Beta: Language Arts 11th Grade 2022 7th Place National Beta: Poetry Division II 2022 Inducted Member in National Honors Society & National English Honors Society 2022 Language Arts Sophocles Prize for Exceptional Sophomore 2021 District Champion in Georgia Youth Writers Competition 2021 Featured poet in India Currents Poetry Reading; only youth poet among 6 international writers 2020 Mary Villareal International Youth Poet of the Year 2017