Sarah Federman

Sarah Federman, an Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies, is the author of the award-winning Transformative Negotiation: Strategies for Everyday Change and Equitable Futures (University of California Press 2023) named by FORBES as one of the top 10 negotiation books. She also wrote the Nautilus award-winning book Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability (University of Wisconsin 2021). Her forthcoming book Corporate Reckoning: How Businesses Can Address Historic Wrongs (MIT Press 2026) builds on her Harvard Business Review article and her TedX talk selected by TED for global distribution, as well as her two Congressional testimonies concerning the responsibility of U.S. banks to respond to slavery ties.  

For classroom use, Federman co-authored two anthologies, Introduction to Conflict Resolution: Discourses and Dynamics(2019) and the open-access  Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath (2022).

In addition to teaching a variety of classes at Kroc, she has been a frequent instructor at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute where she trained future diplomats. 

Federman comes to this work after a decade as an international advertising executive working in over 10 countries negotiating with companies such as Google, Discovery, and NFL.