Sara V. Pic was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her BA from Smith College in Northampton, Massachustts, and her JD from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. Sara was working as a public interest attorney in Boston in 2006 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and decided to move back to her home town in March 2007 to contribute to the rebuilding of the city. She has been working as an attorney for Mental Health Advocacy Service in New Orleans since April 2008, and was an Equal Justice Works Katrina AmeriCorps Attorney through The Pro Bono Project in 2007. In addition to Sara’s advocacy work, she is a staff writer with Antigravity, a New Orleans music and culture magazine. Her contribution to Submerged is an essay entitled “’If Gender is Performance, Then We Do Improv:’ Drag Kings Rebuild New Orleans.” In this work, Sara explores the experiences of drag kings, whose performances provide New Orleans with a forum for social and political commentary on topics such as gender, sexuality, race, and domestic violence, while also giving the community a safe space in which to have fun and connect with one another.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin