Sarah Olivier, Ph.D., is the owner and principal grant consultant of Worthy Words LLC. She maximizes the capacity of nonprofits and institutions through grant research, grant writing, and grant management. Leveraging her background as a humanities academic and community organizer, she helps her clients make their vision for social justice reality by delivering sustainable funding and building organizational capacity.
Before starting her own business, Sarah was an academic who researched in obscure archives and published about the lives and words of fascinating figures. Her areas of expertise include American literatures and histories, gender and sexuality, race and slavery, and empire and settler colonialism. She shared this knowledge with thousands of students in dozens of classes that she designed from scratch. In turn, her students taught her that words have the power to change the world.