Sarah Hurwitz is a member of Cohort II of Rabbanut North America and the author of As A Jew: Reclaiming Our Story From Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try To Erase Us, which is a New York Times bestseller and won the Natan Notable Book Award and Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life – in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There), which was a finalist for two National Jewish Book Awards and for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

She was a White House speechwriter from 2009 to 2017, starting out as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and then serving as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. Prior to working in the White House, Hurwitz was the chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign.

Hurwitz is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and was a 2017 Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. She has also completed training to be a chaplain, which she does on a volunteer basis at a hospital near her home.