A public relations and new media consultant, Sarah has worked extensively in the non-for-profit, higher education and healthcare sectors, focusing on media relations, message management, coalition building, deployment strategies and organizational change.

But it’s her personal mission—to engage and employ the use of emerging technologies in all communication—that connects her with a rapidly growing base of more than 26,000 people.

A self-described “social media freak,” Sarah initiated and moderates #journchat, the top-trending weekly live chat between PR professionals, journalists and bloggers on the microblogging platform, Twitter.

She is a guest writer for Mashable, one of the most popular social media blogs in the world, runs her own blog PRsarahevans.com and is a partner on namechk, a web tool used to identify and secure brand names across multiple social media platforms.

She most recently worked with a local crisis center to raise more than $160,000 in three weeks with the help of social media.

A graduate of Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, she is a life-long St. Louis Cardinals fan living in Chicago