About Sara.

This is her story..

Known as @MissSaraMora on social media globally, Sara has become a sought-after voice in the work of social change with the angle of the migrant community. A college student who took a leave, an influencer, digital media strategist; Sara has dedicated her youth to being a symbol of hope and courage in the face of adversity. From the very short age of 10, Sara served as a youth voice at her local church and community organization. In highschool, Sara led conversation around the importance of empowering young students who like her were in need of role models. When she graduated high school she debuted as an activist when interviewing at the time President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis(2014-2018) on DACA and questioning external countries role in supporting young people with DACA. At just 16 years old she gained access to the presidents administration which inspired her to meet diplomats and explore how diplomatic efforts could support migrant youth in college in the U.S. Little did she know this would lead her to a sequence of intense events. 

After the Trump administration cruelly terminated the DACA program in September 2017, Sara Mora decided to come out publicly as undocumented, a leader for young people who are beneficiaries of the DREAM act. She is an organizer, digital guru, content creator and media strategist. 

After organizing and using her story publicly to emphasize the complexities of the immigrant narrative, Sara was faced with learning the frustrating reality that like her story, migrant folks stories were not mainly used in a way that empowered the character but in a way that totally erased the identity of the impacted person. She grew a hunger for wanting immigrant parents, elders and the entire migrant community to be able to reclaim their stories and know their rights as storytellers. Her experiences with organizations were negatives that turned into the core of her passion. She knew and had experienced seeing with her own eyes the tokenizing and exploitation of migrant peoples stories and so she took her anger and worked on individual campaigns beginning in 2018 with ‘Nuestra Belleza Latina’. Also see: 2nd video, 3rd video. (For more on this campaign visit Sara’s instagram.  This campaign was one of Sara’s first steps bigger steps into mass impact messages on what it meant for companies like Univision to recognize and acknowledge the undocumented population which is a huge percentage of people in the latinx community. This campaign led to online conversation on the matter and when former winners of the beauty pageant heard and reached out to Sara’s campaign, she was blown away by how simple it was to have gathered that collective concern. 

In May 2017, Sara Mora obtained her International Relations A.A and was preparing to enroll in the Political Science program at Rutgers Newark in Fall 2018. After encountering various financial hurdles at the moment of transferring to 4-year college, Trump’s administration ended DACA. This was the turning point that led to Sara deciding that groundwork and people power would be her new school. She met New Jersey Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez and was invited to lead the pledge of allegiance at the inauguration of Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey and after the election of the governor she was recognized as a recognized youth immigrant rights activist in the state of New Jersey. In 2018, Sara joined with others to form part of a lawsuit against the Trump administration for wanting to terminate DACA completely, which later on won in October. 

Sharing her story led to being invited as a voice on Teen Vogue’s campaign for voter registration, Sara’s first time sharing on global platforms that she was undocumented and that despite her inability to vote, she shared her message of believing that the undocumented and migrant voices of the country and world were powerful. In June 2018, she ran for president of Women’s March Youth branch and was then elected as co-president. Becoming the first latina co-president elected for Women’s March youth empower national.  Overseeing 200+ chapters across the country and providing mentorship to youth looking to further their activism and civic engagement. Her term as president of the national youth empower movement ended October 2019.

Sara embarked on a mission in November to amplify the voices and work of the immigrant community at the California border. Her online presence has been a tool in her creating and sending the message that migration is a human right and a humanitarian crisis. 

In 2019, she spent her time dedicated to learning from border communities in person and studying online trends and conversations on immigration. Her goal was to create a national network of organizers doing groundwork and strategizing ways to ensure stories of grassroots organizers at the border are the main highlight and space people run to when thinking of supporting the immigrant rights movement. Sara recently was featured as a main character in the documentary and global project that launched January 13th; ‘The 2020 Project’ in partnership with Levis, Eighteen X 18 and Yara Shahidi. She is a delegate of Eighteen X18 which focuses on youth voter registration and serves as a creative platform meant to uplift the voices of existing youth leaders. Her work is yet to be clearly set in stone because Sara’s wildest dreams are to ensure migrant communities are heard and permanently have a seat at the tables that determine their livelihood.. Her journey begins at believing that the world can be changed and ends at the conclusion that the sky is the limit. In her words, ‘this is only the beginning.”