Sara Kamali

Sara Kamali

Visiting Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chapter Member: Los Angeles Unified SSN
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About Sara

Dr. Sara Kamali is an author, an equity consultant, and a holistic justice activist.

Dr. Kamali’s work as an equity consultant centers on driving organizational change to transform practices and cultures. She diagnoses systemic hurdles within and across departments and incorporates tracking specific metrics to enable positive systems change.

Her guidance results in transparent, accountable, and empowered workplaces and people. Her clients include business leaders, corporations, nonprofits, K-12 schools, and institutes of higher education.

Dr. Kamali is also the author of Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States published by University of California Press in 2021. In the first and only book to directly compare White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States, Dr. Kamali examines their histories and networks as well as their self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence.

In Homegrown Hate, she also examines and addresses how interlocking institutions of power oppress the many while maintaining systems of privilege for a select few based on an approach she defines as “holistic justice”. Holistic justice moves beyond antiracism to anti-oppression in order to redress interlocking inequities at the axis of systemic racism by contextualizing history to cultivate empathy and understanding, and networking across marginalized identities to achieve solidarity. A first-generation American woman of color, Dr. Kamali is passionate about striving against oppression, especially food and housing insecurity, lack of access to health services, and ableism.

Publications

"Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States" (University of California Press, 2021).

Compares White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States as well as examines their histories and networks their self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence.