April 6, 2023

Sara Grossman

Sara Grossman has spent her career in the places where communication becomes something more — where the right words at the right moment can shift culture, build coalitions, and move people to act. She brings over 15 years of storytelling, advocacy, and partnership work to the mission of replacing hyper-individualism with genuine human connection.

Sara was a Senior Fellow with Everytown for Gun Safety, ran communications for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, and cofounded and served as President of The Dru Project, a charity she helped build in memory of her friend Drew Leinonen, killed in the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting. Over the past decade, she has helped grow the organization into a national force for LGBTQ+ youth: over a quarter of a million dollars raised and distributed in scholarships and grants, and a GSA curriculum downloaded by schools and organizations across the globe. The Dru Project is both her most personal work and her clearest proof of what committed, community-rooted communications can accomplish.

For the past seven years, Sara has run CODE-mktg., her own impact-focused agency serving LGBTQ+ nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and social-purpose businesses. Her work spans content strategy, PR, partnerships, and brand storytelling — always in service of causes that matter. She also published children’s book called Schnauzer in a Sweater Vest – a tale about her dog, Baxter, and his pack of friends learning about friendship, their differences, and pride.

Sara holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from The University of Central Florida. She splits her time between Denver, CO and Orlando, FL and can usually be found at a concert, movie, or at the beach hunting for sea glass on the weekends. She comes to Plus Wonder with a deep conviction that community is not a nice-to-have — it is the work. In a moment when loneliness and division are on the rise, Sara believes that helping people find their way back to each other is both urgent and possible, and that is what she brings to it every day.