Sahar Driver

Sahar Driver is a documentary impact strategist and educator, field builder, and researcher. Her work has included impact campaign development and partnership cultivation for over two-dozen campaigns both as a freelancer and with Active Voice; developing trainings and curriculum around impact campaign strategy and implementation, including with Doc Society on their Impact Field Guide and their Impact Hi5s; helping to design and launch two new grantmaking programs with Firelight Media for filmmakers of color; and piloting efforts to build community with practitioners working at the intersection of film and faith to strengthen circles of practice across the U.S.. In 2020 she authored the Ford Foundation commissioned report: Beyond Inclusion: The Critical Role of People of Color in the U.S. Documentary Ecosystem and has been designing interventions that deepen the power of people of color working within it.