Sara Cooper

Sara runs toward complexity the way most people run from it. As Senior Manager of Communications and Marketing at Abode, she helps the organization tell its story as well as it does its work, translating what Abode does into language that contractors, utilities, policymakers, and future teammates can use. She is just as invested in the people behind that story, and her current work centers on company culture, repeatable processes, and the training and development systems that help good teams grow.

Her foundation is science. She studied Biology and Astronomy at UC Berkeley, so she’s equally comfortable thinking at the cellular level and the cosmic one. After years running the business side of a design firm, she still approaches every project the way she once approached a lab notebook. Hypothesize, test, refine, repeat.

After moving east from California in 2012, she added graphic design and photography to the mix. The happy accident is a career where systems thinking and visual instinct are partners rather than competing priorities. Sara is a longtime NESEA member, a participant in the BuildingEnergy Bottom Lines program, and an active member of AIGA and NEWIEE.

Off the clock, she’s a devoted concertgoer, an avid reader, and the person who finds the art museum in every city she visits. The camera usually comes along too.