Program and community operations
Orientation, documentation, role clarity, participant pathways, shared-space systems, coordination, and dependable follow-through.
Careful coordination. Public trust. Work that holds.
Sahar Tai-Seale brings experience in cooperative governance, program and community operations, facilitation, survivor-informed research, ecological education, and visual knowledge design.
Open to mission-aligned government and nonprofit employment—especially a stable full-time role on a peer team serving the public, survivors, cooperatives, education, arts, or community life. Also open to internships, fellowships, and carefully scoped consulting projects. Independent work remains selective, bounded, and scheduled by appointment.
Core capabilities
A broad practice with recognizable working parts.
The through-line is practical: help people enter, understand roles, participate, document decisions, care for shared places, and carry work forward.
Community engagement
Accessible public communication, relationship-building, outreach, participatory learning, and careful work across sensitive contexts.
Governance and facilitation
Meeting structures, member systems, consultation, agreements, accountability, boundaries, repair pathways, and usable records.
Ecological stewardship and education
Permaculture, site observation, landscape stewardship, public ecological learning, and embodied approaches to place-based care.
Research, writing, and publication
Survivor-informed research, reports, guides, curricula, presentation development, and translation of complex material for public use.
Spatial and visual practice
Concept art, information graphics, installations, maps, interfaces, and liminal-space design that help people understand and inhabit an idea.
Selected experience
Service, study, and applied responsibility.
A selective record of professional, academic, cooperative, consulting, and community-based work.
2015–2016
Operations, education, and World of Nature Learning Path
Bosch Bahá’í School / Bosch Bahá’í Center of Learning · California
Residential internship combining housing, an approximately $15,000 annual stipend, mentorship, bookkeeping, registration, visitor communication, office and conference-center operations, self-directed ecological and spiritual study, and development of a 23-sign interpretive-path proposal tested through approximately 42 walk-through versions with participants ages 10–65.
2017–2019
Cooperative governance and member systems
Student Cooperative Housing Association · approximately 90 members across seven communities
Board and committee service, policy, membership, orientation, accountability, and shared-living systems in a resident-governed housing cooperative.
2025–present
Cooperative operations and landscape stewardship
The Corner / SCHA · Davis, California
Governance documentation, resident orientation, applicant coordination, role clarity, shared-space stewardship, ecological site learning, and participatory education.
2024–2025
Survivor-informed research
San Diego State University Research Foundation
Research support involving careful documentation, public systems, access, recovery, and the limits of institutional response.
2025–present
Public ecological learning
Spiral Ecology Experience Dome · Whole Earth Festival
A public installation combining ecological interpretation, materials, volunteer roles, visitor flow, education, and participatory experience.
Long-term practice
Consulting, facilitation, and community-based service
Bosch Bahá’í School · Stanford CCRMA · cooperative, educational, and community settings
Paid, volunteer, academic, and community-based work in facilitation, holistic education, collaborative making, cultural inquiry, and practical empowerment.
Education and preparation
Interdisciplinary, accurately stated.
Formal coursework, professional training, cooperative education, embodied practice, and situated learning all contribute to the work.
- 01University of California, Davis — American Studies coursework; degree completion in progress.
- 02San Diego Community College District — coursework in business communication, human relations, entrepreneurship, psychology, and mental-health-worker preparation.
- 03North American Students of Cooperation — cooperative education and governance learning.
- 04Permaculture design and teacher training.
- 05200-hour yoga teacher training and continuing education in yoga for mental health and trauma recovery.
- 06Five Elements–based Traditional Chinese Medicine teacher certification and continuing study.
- 07Educator Full-Circle training.
Recognition and development
Current work, without premature titles.
Accepted presentation
Imagining America 2026
“Lanterns to the Spiral Garden: Stewardship Cycles for Restoring Collective Spirit in the Mucky Middle,” UC Davis, October 2026.
View the sessionProfessional development
Restorative justice facilitation
Registered for restorative justice conference-facilitator training. The facilitator title will be added after completion.
Role direction
Ready to contribute inside a defined team.
Current role interests center on steady public service, thoughtful operations, community trust, and work with a visible purpose.
- 01Community engagement and outreach
- 02Program coordination and administration
- 03Cooperative housing and community operations
- 04Facilitation and participatory education
- 05Arts, culture, and place-based programming
- 06Research and public knowledge design