As a social geographer, Sara has focused on the practice, theorization and publication of participatory geographic research drawing on community-based fieldwork in Costa Rica and Indonesia, as well as collaborative projects with Indigenous Maaori and refugee-background communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has published widely and is on the editorial board of several prominent Geography journals. Sara is at Concordia University as a Lillian Robinson Visiting Scholar in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.