About Us
Sarah Colomé (she/her) is a California raised and Illinois-based scholar-practitioner, advocate, educator, and author who brings a passion for collective liberation to all aspects of her work. As a practitioner who has benefited from intentional communities, she aims to work alongside partners who strive to move beyond compliance-based diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts,
toward futures that prioritize the holistic wellbeing of individuals, teams, and communities.
Her experience spans sectors, most recently serving as the Director of the Women’s Resources Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Here, she oversaw the Center’s three key divisions of Gender Equity, Sexual Misconduct Prevention, and Advocacy and Support. Illinois provided Sarah with the space to creatively actualize hooks’ margin-to-center approach through the creation of the Embedded Confidential Advisor Model, her course instruction, securing Illinois' first OVW Campus Program grant, and leading the design of a holistic roadmap targeting sexual misconduct prevention,
intervention, and response.
Prior to her work at Illinois, she served as a national technical assistance provider, trainer, content creator, and policy advisor.
Sarah Colomé Founder & CEO
Collective Futures LLC
EXPERIENCE SNAPSHOT
Conference Engagements
Trainings & Workshops
Trainings & Workshops
"More Than Words: Embedding an Intersectional Praxis in Campus Sexual Misconduct Initiatives"
2020 NASPA Strategies Conference
“On Collective Liberation: Disrupting White Supremacy in Our Prevention Efforts”
2019 Campus Prevention Network Summit
“Analyzing the Role of Whiteness in our Violence Prevention Efforts”
2018 National Sexual Assault
"More Than Words: Embedding an Intersectional Praxis in Campus Sexual Misconduct Initiatives"
2020 NASPA Strategies Conference
“On Collective Liberation: Disrupting White Supremacy in Our Prevention Efforts”
2019 Campus Prevention Network Summit
“Analyzing the Role of Whiteness in our Violence Prevention Efforts”
2018 National Sexual Assault Conference
“Relationship Realities:
Healthy, Unhealthy & Abusive”
2016 National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Annual Conference
“Campus Responses to Adolescent
Dating Abuse”
2016 Alaska School Counselor Association
“Deconstructing Dating Abuse:
How to Talk with Young People”
2015 National Education Association Annual Joint Summit on Concerns of Women and Minorities
Trainings & Workshops
Trainings & Workshops
Trainings & Workshops
“Mental Health Services & Cyber Sexual Abuse” 2021 National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Assault
“Title IX: Going Above and Beyond Compliance"
2020 Webinar for NASPA’s Culture of Respect
“From Surviving to Thriving:
Addressing Imposter Syndrome”
2019 Women in Chemistry Retreat,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Deconstructin
“Mental Health Services & Cyber Sexual Abuse” 2021 National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Assault
“Title IX: Going Above and Beyond Compliance"
2020 Webinar for NASPA’s Culture of Respect
“From Surviving to Thriving:
Addressing Imposter Syndrome”
2019 Women in Chemistry Retreat,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Deconstructing #DEI: Building and Sustaining Liberatory Campus Units”
2019, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Unpacking Toxic Masculinity: Strategies for Enhancing Programs & Resisting Rape Culture”
2018 Health Care Education Training
“Understanding Bias: Preparing & Planning for Encountering Discrimination”
2018, College of Law,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“The Clinical Response to Dating Abuse”
2015, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Putting Privilege In Its Place: Ethical Self-Assessment for Leaders & Organizations"
2014 Alliance Management Institute
Grantee Capacity Building
Trainings & Workshops
Grantee Capacity Building
Co-Chair: Coordinated Community Response Team
Office on Violence Against Women Campus Program, University of Illinois
“Cyberstalking and the Misuse of Technology”
2017 Orientation for Improving Criminal Justice Grantees (DOJ-OVW)
“Sustainable Engagement: Establishing Youth Informed Practices”
2015 Consolidated Youth Engaging Men & Boys Ins
Co-Chair: Coordinated Community Response Team
Office on Violence Against Women Campus Program, University of Illinois
“Cyberstalking and the Misuse of Technology”
2017 Orientation for Improving Criminal Justice Grantees (DOJ-OVW)
“Sustainable Engagement: Establishing Youth Informed Practices”
2015 Consolidated Youth Engaging Men & Boys Institute (DOJ-OVW)
“Cyberstalking and the Misuse of Technology in Teen Dating Violence Cases: Strategies for Criminal Justice Professionals”
2017 Webinar (DOJ-OVW)
“Introduction to Youth and the
Social Media Craze”
2016 Webinar for Consolidated Youth Grantees (DOJ-OVW)
“Holding Complexity: Young People, Sex Work, and Trafficking”
2016 Webinar for Consolidated Youth Grantees (DOJ-OVW)