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