Sarah Granger

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  1. Flexing the White House Women's Muscle: An Intimate Interview with Valerie Jarrett

    9/18/11 7:34pm by Sarah Granger
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    Sarah Granger and Valerie Jarrett

    It's not every day that I receive e-mail from someone at the White House, so when they contacted me last Monday about interviewing Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in San Francisco, I had to scramble to make it work. The typical working mother's dilemma: I was planning to pick up my daughter at school that day at 3:05. Time of interview: 3:10. With my husband out of town, I sent out a series of messages seeking someone who could pick up my daughter.  Read more >

  2. Top 5 Ways to Make an Impact in the Next Election

    11/11/10 5:04pm by Sarah Granger
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    Political volunteer

    Not happy with how things turned out in the 2010 election? Or excited and fired-up by the results? Either way, it's not too early to start thinking about how to get involved for 2012. And rather than let this opportunity slip by, I wanted to write a little bit about what I've learned after eight years of being actively involved in politics. It's actually much easier than you might think to get connected and to make a difference.  Read more >

  3. Women Voter Mumbo Jumbo or Just the Prevailing Wind?

    11/4/10 7:22am by Sarah Granger
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    Fire Pelosi button

    Year of the woman? Bah. Maybe we had more run, but we lost seats overall. And Sarah Palin doesn't seem to be helping things. Most of the women she backed lost. What about women voters, who were so important in 2008? Let's get one thing straight: women are swingers. That's what the numbers say, anyway. And women swung right.  Read more >

  4. BlogHer's 2010 Election Watch List: Races and Issues

    11/2/10 6:12am by Sarah Granger
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    Polling place

    Following all of our political coverage up to Election Day, the BlogHer political team has put together a watch list of races featuring women candidates and unique initiatives in a variety of states. We'll be covering each of the races on the Watch List all day Tuesday as results come in, and Wednesday as we get final poll numbers and write-ups from community bloggers.  Read more >

  5. OPEN THREAD: I VOTED! So, How Was It?

    11/1/10 9:04pm by Sarah Granger
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    I Voted Stickers

    Women voters have enormous power, not unlike women consumers, as we've found out in recent years. As Donna Brazille says, "your vote is your voice!"  Read more >

  6. Must-Read Political Blogs by Women

    11/1/10 7:44pm by Sarah Granger
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    Vote 2010 sign

    So many amazing blogs written by women cover politics these days that it's become virtually impossible to find, list, organize or categorize them all. While some have tried, the content shifts often enough that any list built six months ago is already obsolete. After working on researching and building this list for nearly a month, rather than attempting to include every angle and everyone, I finally gave up.  Read more >

  7. Election 2010: Senate Races We're Watching

    11/1/10 12:39pm by Sarah Granger
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    Election signs (picapp.com)

    From our BlogHer 2010 Election Watch List, you'll see we've been watching several tight races for U.S. Senate involving women candidates, including California, where we have two impressive women candidates running opposite each other. This post will include updates on some of the hottest Senate races that we're watching as results come in on Election Day.  Read more >

  8. Election 2010: California Senate (Barbara Boxer vs. Carly Fiorina)

    11/1/10 12:34pm by Sarah Granger
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    Boxer-Fiorina handshake

    This post will contain live coverage of election results and reporting as we find out who wins the California race for U.S. Senate - between veteran Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and former HP CEO, Republican Carly Fiorina.  Read more >

  9. Congressional Candidate Dina Titus Answers BlogHer's Questions

    10/31/10 9:31am by Sarah Granger
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    Congressional candidate Dina Titus (image courtesy candidate)

    BlogHer reached out to women candidates running in tight races this election cycle -- here at BlogHer.com and on Facebook and Twitter. After collecting the questions, we sent six to each candidate. Dina Titus, running for Congress in Nevada's 3rd District, answered questions from the BlogHer community here: 1) What are your thoughts on how to make Nevada energy and water efficient?  Read more >

  10. Boxer vs. Fiorina: 10 Questions & Video Answers

    10/30/10 4:59pm by Sarah Granger
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    Fiorina and Boxer

    BlogHer has partnered with 10Questions, a project of the Personal Democracy Forum, to bring citizens' questions to political candidates. Here, we put the spotlight on some of the answers by California Senatorial candidates Barbara Boxer (Democrat) and Carly Fiorina (Republican). Question: Net Neutrality  Read more >

Sarah Granger

Full Name
Sarah Granger
Member Since
August 2006
About Me: 

As a BlogHer Contributing Editor for politics and news, I'm excited to have been a part of the BlogHer community now for over five years. For the 2010 election, I served as BlogHer's Interim Political Director.

I first entered the blogosphere in 2002 from behind the scenes when I directed the launch of the first presidential exploratory campaign blog. In addition to politics, I have blogged about a wide range of topics including technology, parenting and fashion, and I'm a big fan of the community here at BlogHer. I have helped launch over a dozen blogs, and I have my own blog-columns at The Huffington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle at SFGate.com. I was a speaker at BlogHer '07 in Second Life, I attended BlogHer '08, and I spoke on a panel at BlogHer '10.

Blogs where I have contributed include the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, the Real Simple Blog, the Political Voices of Women, ecofabulous, MOMocrats, Vivanista, the WomenCount Blog, the Emerge Blog, the Fem 2.0 blog, the Personal Democracy Forum, and GovFresh. My work has also been published in Spectrum magazine, Digital Landing, Forbes Russia, Bay Area Parent magazine, The Sacramento Bee newspaper, Security Focus, NBC Bay Area, WSJ.com and MSNBC.com. I have also contributed to three books and edited five.

When not writing, I advise organizations on how to use new media, including blogs and social networks. I also work on policy issues on various committees - topics including technology, media, health, education, national security and the environment. I speak regularly at conferences and have been a source for a variety of media outlets including "Good Morning America", CBS News, PBS.org, NPR, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. I serve on the U.S. public policy committee for the Association for Computing Machinery, and I have previously been active in a wide range of community organizations, local and statewide committees.

Find me on Twitter @sarahgranger. For links to my other writing and new media projects, see SarahGranger.com.

Note: I also cover figure skating on occasion - we moved those posts to another account - Sarah Skates - please follow the figure skating coverage there!

 

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