Sara is a campaigner and researcher on freedom of artistic expression and human rights, notably as the director of PEN International’s Freedom of Expression programme for over 20 years and previously as the coordinator of Amnesty International’s Asia Research Department. At PEN, Sara worked with its global membership mobilizing its campaigns for writers at risk as well as on other issues affecting freedom of expression including anti-terror legislation, criminal defamation laws, and actions by non-state entities, among others. In 2013, she took up freelance consultancy, working on projects such as the Council of Europe's Free To Create|Create to be Free program of reports and workshops. She works with many arts and human rights organisations developing the right to artistic freedom, among them Freemuse, PEN International, and the Swedish Arts Council. She also works with UNESCO developing training programmes for governments and CSOs, as well as monitoring and reporting strategies to promote artistic freedom under the 2005 Convention.