Sara Maaria Saastamoinen (hän, she, they) is a karjalaine (Indigenous Karelian), suomalainen (Finn), and naturalized American who dreams of abundant, radically joyous worlds as an exhibiting multimedia artist, interdisciplinary scholar, and award-winning activist.
Her growing body of work navigates transcorporeal ecologies of kinship and care with the more-than-human beings with whom we share our home planet. Her work seeks to articulate diasporic constructions of karjalažus (Karelian identity) toward collectively sown abundant futures. They teach futures studies and political science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa while pursuing their doctorate. Sara is a past Futures Research Fellow with the United Nations Development Programme.
