Sarah Perle Benazera

Sarah Perle Benazera is a peace-activist, storyteller, and dialogue facilitator. After studying at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in 2007 she realized that cross-cultural dialogue and peace-building were her callings. Since then she has been working with youth and adults in the peace-building and education field in Israel and Palestine. Sarah worked as a project manager and blog editor at YaLa Young Leaders for 5 years, developing and running a citizen journalism program; she has been involved in various peace and cooperation projects, organizing conferences, participating in panels and programs about peace education and cooperation, and working and volunteering with Kids4Peace Jerusalem, and has been working as an educator and program director with Jerusalem Peace Builders since 2014. She studied Environmental Studies and Cross-border Cooperation at Ben-Gurion University and the Arava Institute, as well as Political Philosophy at the Université Panthéon Sorbonne in Paris.