Sarah Ramsey is a strategic communications expert with a background in science, technology, and space policy. She helps organizations and individuals tell their stories so that the right message gets to the right audience at the right time to generate positive action.
As a practiced Washington communicator, Sarah’s strength is moving between the worlds of public affairs and public policy. She translates technical speak into the language of policy, puts policy speak into context for the technical experts, and uses it all to tell an engaging story to the general public and other stakeholders.
Over the past 20 years, Sarah has crafted communications strategies for the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and the XPRIZE Foundation, as well as for multiple small businesses, nonprofits, and academic institutions.
Sarah started her career developing education and outreach programs for a small aerospace museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue a graduate degree in science, technology, and public policy. She served as a Presidential Management Fellow working for the USAF, then moved to NASA where she worked as a speechwriter, exhibit manager, and public outreach specialist.
She was the Director of Communications for Space Prizes at the XPRIZE Foundation, helping to launch the Google Lunar XPRIZE. During the Obama Administration, she served as a public affairs officer at NASA, advising senior officials on messaging strategies, media relations, internal communications, and social media.
In 2017, she became a full-time writer, editor and strategic communications consultant. She primary focuses on development and content edits for short- and long-form nonfiction, and has experience as a fiction development editor. She has written for a variety of publications including 100 Days in Appalachia, Greenbrier Valley Quarterly, Wide Open Eats, Craft Your Content, and neighborhoods.com, and is currently drafting her first novel.
In her free time, Sarah volunteers with civic organizations in her hometown of Alexandria, Virginia, and is a member of the Alexandria Sister Cities Committee.