Sara Lennon Communications
Inspirations
My mother was an accomplished poet and lifelong student of literature and philosophy. She taught me how to read and write. My father, a management consultant with Arthur D. Little, taught me that business can be exciting too. My favorite aunt and namesake was a talented painter whose abstract work graced the walls of our contemporary home. She taught me to seek out and love all kinds of art. Our family dinners were passionate and opinionated explorations, often stretching for hours, so when I enrolled at Concord Academy, and then Wesleyan University, they felt just like home. After college I taught English at Choate Rosemary Hall, earned a master's degree in literature at UVA, and then returned to CA as Director of Communications, writing and producing sixteen annual publications to promote this small yet exceptional school. There I met the gifted Jeanne Abboud and a partnership was formed: we brainstormed, I wrote, she designed, private schools hired us. The threads of my background had knit themselves together—a love for writing and editing, an artistic sensibility, an interest in business, and the unshakable belief that education lies at the center of lasting progress. And so my business began on an early Macintosh computer and introductory version of Adobe PageMaker. Hundreds of projects later, I'm still loving the work I'm lucky enough to do each day.
A family trip in Iceland, 2014