Sarah Wolozin | Director

Sarah Wolozin is a research scientist and director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. She is the co-founder of the Independent XR Distribution Coalition, co-founder and editorial director of Docubase, and co-founder of the Co-Creation Studio and Immerse.  Her publications include Creating Community in Hybrid Festivals, AI, Embodiment and the Perception of the Real, and Prototyping the Future: How Artists Reveal the Future of Media.

Wolozin has long had an interest in exploring new platforms for storytelling and social change. Before arriving at MIT, she worked on award-winning documentaries and educational media for a wide variety of media outlets including PBS, WGBH, NPR, websites and museums.  She started experimenting with the web back in its early stages of its public use.  She has sat on numerous committees and juries including Knight Foundation’s New Work Fund, Peabody Interactive Documentary Screening Committee, Sundance New Frontier Story Lab, Tribeca Storyscapes, IFP Media Center, Tribeca New Media Fund, Puma Impact Award, and World Press Photo. She has presented at Sundance, MOMA, SXSW, International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), MIT, CPH:Dox and many other venues. She has a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University. In 2023, she was awarded an insignia of  Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government.