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Sara Sinclair
Sara Sinclair is an oral historian, educator and author.

Early Life
Sara Elizabeth Sinclair was born to parents Douglas Sinclair and Joan Sinclair. Her father is of Cree-Ojibwe and Scottish ancestry; her mother is of German-Jewish ancestry. Sara has resided in Toronto (Canada), London (England), and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). She currently resides in New York City with her husband and son.

Sara Sinclair was born in Montreal, Canada and spent her childhood in Toronto, Canada. She commenced studies in journalism at Ryerson University, before pursuing acting at American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Following a career in theatre and film, she completed degrees at Athabasca University (Canada) and a Master of Arts in Oral History at Columbia University (New York). Sara’s thesis work at Columbia initiated a series of interviews exploring the narratives of university-educated, reservation-raised Native North Americans on returning to their Nations after school.

Oral history
Sara's oral history work has included work for the International Labour Organization's Africa Regional Office in advance of its centennial celebrations, work for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the Exit Art Closure Study, a research project on the closure of New York gallery/artist’s space Exit Art (1982-2012), and as the project manager for the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project.

Sara is the editor, with Mary Marshall Clark and Peter Bearman, of Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History.

Sara is the editor of a forthcoming work with Voice of Witness, When We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America.

Lectures
Sara has lectured and participated in panels at Columbia University, Princeton University, St. John's University, and is a frequent contributor to the Oral History Association. Sara has taught native history to high-school students at the Museum of the City of New York. Sara is a contributor to Salon Magazine.