Sarah Wolozin is a research scientist and founding director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. She is the founder and editorial director of
Docubase, co-founder and a member of the editorial collective of
Immerse, and co-founder of the
Co-Creation Studio. Her publications include
Creating Community in Hybrid Festivals as author and
Collective Wisdom: Co-creating Media for Equity and Justice as co-author.
Wolozin has long had an interest in exploring new platforms for storytelling and social change. Before arriving at MIT, she worked on award-winning documentaries and educational media for a wide variety of media outlets including PBS, WGBH, NPR, websites and museums. She started experimenting with the web back in its early stages of its public use. She has sat on numerous committees and juries including Tribeca Storyscapes, Tribeca New Media Fund, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, the IFP Media Center, Puma Impact Award, and World Press Photo. She has presented at Sundance, MOMA, SXSW, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), MIT, CPH:Dox and many other venues. She has a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and speaks fluent Italian.
