Sara Sinclair began her career as an oral historian at Columbia Oral History (COH). Her first project for COH was directing the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project, and her last, directing the Aryeh Neier Oral History project. In between, for COH and other New York City cultural institutions, her work has focused on bringing Indigenous voices to large-scale projects, including for the Obama Presidential Oral History; the NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive; and for the Whitney Museum of Art, a collection of oral histories connecting the museum’s physical site to Lenape story and history.
Beyond her work for Columbia, she has published 5 books, including working with judicial and cultural icon Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) to complete his memoirs through the practice of Oral History (Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation, Penguin Random House, 2024).
