Sarah Wolozin is the founding director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. As director she develops and oversees lab projects, operations, and collaborations. She is the creator and editorial director of Docubase, co-founder and a member of the editorial collective of Immerse, and director of the Co-Creation Studio.
Sarah has long had an interest in exploring new platforms for storytelling and social change. Before arriving at MIT, she produced award-winning documentaries and educational media for a wide variety of media outlets including PBS, WGBH, NPR, websites and museums. She started experimenting with the web back in its early stages of public use. She has sat on numerous committees and juries including Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, Tribeca New Media Fund, the IFP Media Center, Puma Impact Award, Tribeca Storyscapes and World Press Photo. She has presented at Sundance, MOMA, SXSW, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), Double Exposure Film Festival, Storycode, MIT, DocMontevideo and many other venues. She has a B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University and speaks fluent Italian.
