“There are those who give keynotes, while only the best are weavers of stories imbued with messages of inspiration, hope, encouragement, and wisdom! Sara Daise is a powerful, dynamic speaker with the ability to speak to, for, and about a multitude of identities. If seeking a path of enlightenment, then Sara is a must see.”

-Dr. Franklin Ellis
Director of the Provost’s office for Inclusive Excellence at Vanderbilt University

“Sara is an insightful, knowledgeable historian and archivist, and her willingness to take on projects that amplify Gullah-Geechee people is inspirational. I’ve worked with her on two projects, one audio and one written, and she was a delight. She listened and offered thoughtful suggestions to improve my project. Her love for our people is palpable in everything she does and her desire to help usher us into our future is infectious. It was an honor to have her write for my debut novel’s educational guide. Working with Sara felt like coming home - familiar, nourishing and restorative.”

-Eden Royce, author of Root Magic

“I have assigned Sara’s writing and invited Sara to lecture in my classes because of Sara’s profound and affirming impact on students. Sara’s work invites students to time travel, to reckon with the horrific racial violence woven into the norms of past and present society, and to imagine radically different futures! Sara represents a unique way of knowing and being as a queer Afrofuturist. The scholarship and presence that emerges from Sara’s way of knowing stirs, unsettles and compels us to listen differently and hunger more voraciously for disruption and upheaval of the crooked status quo.”

Kristi “kaj” Brian, PhD
[she/her or they/them]
Adjunct Professor
College of Charleston
Transformative Teaching Collective Member

“I *met* Ms. Daise in 2017 when she found me via internet research. She was working on her MA in Public History at UIU (where she graduated with distinction) and was investigating scholars who were engaged in the work she was interested in exploring. After several exchanges via email and then phone where we discussed research, history, culture, and all things Afrofuturism, I invited her to join me and other colleagues in submitting panels for the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Since then, Ms. Daise has been engaged in some really groundbreaking and forward thinking public work that centers Gullah Geechee culture. She is brilliant and invested in continuing to move culture forward by examining and creating narratives that support just futures. She is doing the work.” 

-Aiesha Turman, PhD
Founder of The Black Girl Project

“Her passionate work for developing new lenses and approaches for  elevating and uncovering suppressed narratives of black women; particularly; Gullah women’s  contributions is legendary. She has an uncanny way of bringing together collaboration, partnerships,  communities, and individuals together in a tapestry of joy and liberation that is purely awe-inspiring. In  the same vein, her dedication, hard work, and keen intellectual prowess is unmatched. She simply has  no equal in thought, rigor, and vision. Sara inspires me because she is a world-shaper... myself and many others know Sara as a warrior, a prophet, a brilliant thought-leader,  and a visionary for where the New South needs to arrive.”

-Dr. Porchia Moore  
Assistant Professor of Museum Studies
University of Florida
Co-Director of The Incluseum
Co-Creator of Visitors of Color

“I hired Sara to conduct oral interviews with Black grandmothers and grandchildren for the archive. She is  a gifted interviewer and really got what it was that I was trying to tease out of each conversation—organic  and depthful insights that provided a window into Black grandmothering in America. She made  grandmothers and grandchildren alike feel comfortable enough to share vulnerable memories, make  powerful connections for themselves, and rescue and recover their family’s history and memories...she speaks so many languages. She is brilliant as a burgeoning scholar and a  person who has truly been a student of life, including learning from listening to elders, being a griot, living historian, and learning from experience. So, she speaks  academese and the language of formal education. But Sara also speaks the many languages used by people of African descent and when she does, the familiarity it creates breaks down any walls  interviewees might bring to the table. They know she gets it, because she is one of them.” 

-LaShawnDa L. Pittman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
American Ethnic Studies 
University of Washington
Founder of Real Black Grandmothers