Sarah Gilbert

Dr Sarah Gilbert is a skilled and experienced storyteller, whose work spans documentary film and television, print and broadcast journalism, and literary non-fiction. 

She has worked on many television documentary projects, with a focus on Australian history. She has been a newspaper reporter in New York, a guidebook writer in Argentina and a journalist at SBS and the ABC. She writes occasional features and op eds in the local and international press, and is the books columnist for Galah Magazine. She is the author of Unconventional Women: the story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia (MUP, 2024), a work of oral history. 

She has a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from Western Sydney University.

Sarah leads the team at Impact Studios, where she oversees numerous projects and drives the editorial vision across Impact Studios’ award-winning podcasts.