Sara Alvarado is a writer, speaker, and teacher who believes that the way to handle challenges in life and business is to show up authentic, bold, vulnerable, and always ready for fun. She is a white woman married to a Mexican man with two multicultural, bilingual children. As a Real Estate Broker/Owner, Sara combined 25+ years in the real estate field with her passion for racial equity and co-founded Own It: Building Black Wealth, a groundbreaking initiative working toward eliminating substantial barriers to wealth and homeownership for Black and brown families.

As a fierce advocate for social justice, Sara has published a memoir, Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta (2023), The Racial Justice Toolkit for Real Estate Professionals (2020), a Guide for Change Agents (2016), and she is the creator of the Conversation Challenge: helping white people talk about race. Through her speaking, facilitating, and workshops, Sara creates awareness and inspires change with her straight talk and loving ways.

She is currently a board member of Centro Hispano and All Things Alzheimer’s. She is named founder of Step Up: Equity Matters in the Workplace, Badger Rock Middle School, and Nuestro Mundo Community School. Sara is a lover of love, spirit, dance, and adventure (with the music turned up) and enjoys family fun, traveling, challenging the status quo, and writing.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Wealth & Homeownership Equity, Financial institutions, and Housing organizations, Racial justice advocacy and systems change, policies & practices within real estate professions