Sara Rostolder Mandell has been a strategic communications and marketing professional for nearly 30 years, helping foundations and non-profit organizations tailor their messages, brands, and public images to achieve the biggest impact.

In addition to providing communications
consulting to numerous organizations both in and out of the Jewish community, she was the Chief Communications Officer of the Washington DCJCC, and has served as either the Director of Marketing or the Director of Communications for Ask Big Questions, Jewish Funds for Justice, and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs.

She has worked with DDB-Worldwide and The Hatcher Group, and was the Senior Press Officer for the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC.

She shares her life in Madison, WI with her husband and two teenagers, and finds joy in cooking for others, spending time near bodies of water, or embarrassing her kids by bursting into a song triggered by something they say.