Sarah Stierch
Journalist, Photographer, and Writer in Sonoma, California
Sarah Stierch is a freelance journalist, grantwriter, copywriter and photographer based in Sonoma, California.
She is a reporter for the Sonoma Index-Tribune and Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. She is also editor/blogger at Sarah's Sojourn.
She has been editing Wikipedia for over ten years. She is the former Wikipedian in Residence at the Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress and the former Susan B. Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stierch has contributed to Sonoma (magazine), Huffington Post, Nuvo Newsweekly, Sonoma Valley Sun, and the Bohemian. Her photography has been published by the WAMU, California State Parks, ROAR, Washington Post, Utne Reader, NBA, Motorburn, Red Bull, Nature World News, Buzzfeed, Christian Post, KNPR, Thrillist, Frommers, Lonely Planet, Financial Observer, Hilton, PETA, Joie de Vivre Hotels, the National Park Service, and more.
Her efforts to encourage more women to edit Wikipedia and cultural institutions to partner with Wikimedia has been featured in Smithsonian magazine, Slate, the Atlantic, East Bay Express, the Daily Dot, The Mary Sue, Tech Republic, Linux Magazine and on KCRW, National Public Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Additionally, she serves on the Advisory Board for Wikimedia DC.