Sande Hart is a mother, grandmother, and wife, and an award-winning leader in the fields of women’s empowerment and interfaith community building. She founded the women’s grassroots international organization The Global Women's Village, formally known as S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope.)

She recently was awarded with the Nautilus book award for The Liminal Odyssey, The Alchemical Power of the Spaces In-Between.

Sande is actively engaged in leadership in the peace, compassion, community building, and women’s re and in-powerment sectors. Her most recent work is in service to the role of women in this evolutionary impulse we are in during these transitional times.

Sande served on the Women's Task Force for The Parliament of The World's Religions and developing and producing the first-ever Women's Village at the 2023 international conference. She founded and served as Director for the international organization The Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls sector, creating the 9th sector of the international organization focused on compassion. She is also the Founder of Compassionate California, which recently became established into law by the governor’s office as the first Compassionate State in the world.

Sande is a Compassion Integrity Trainer, a program of Life University's Center for Compassion Integrity and Security Ethics. She has conducted countless workshops and produced major and smaller events in more than seven countries, presented on panels in universities, global and local organizations, and city and state-level institutions. Sande is currently being inducted into the Women’s Oral History archives for Claremont Colleges in California. Sande will barter for chocolate.