About Sara

Sara Roncero-Menendez is a writer, essayist, critic, and public relations professional. After attending the Arthur L. Carter Institute for Journalism at New York University, she interned for Mashable, PSFK, and was a fellow at The Huffington Post. From there, Sara was accepted into the prestigious Communication program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she graduated with her Masters degree. Since then, she has dedicated herself to working as both a reporter (The Outerhaven, Get Literary, and PSFK) and a PR professional (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

As a journalist, she has covered a number of different topics. For Mashable and The Huffington Post, she covered everything from viral media trends to the evolution of technology, in both long form and short. As the Film/TV/Book editor for the The Outerhaven, she creates news stories, op-eds, listicles, obituaries, reviews, and more on anything and everything pop culture related. Her favorite pieces to work on combine looking at the intersection of cultural products and the ways they relate to the human experience and real-world issues.

During her time at the University of Illinois, she taught several semesters of Public Speaking, helping undergraduate students develop their rhetorical prowess as well as prepare them to be confident, articulate communicators and leaders. She studied psychoanalysis as a method of reading comic books and superhero narratives, focusing on narratives of trauma and healing through the use of heroism.