Sarah Eagle Heart (Oglala Lakota) is an Emmy award winning storyteller and entrepreneur whose perspective is rooted in her experiences growing up on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Ms. Eagle Heart is an internationally accomplished executive with a diverse background in tribal, corporate, and non-profit organizations focused on cultural education, advocacy, and healing with a unique vantage point and desire to shift culture and amplify impact.
Ms. Eagle Heart currently focuses in the areas of education, entertainment and energy with True Enterprises. She co-founded Zuyá Entertainment with Twila True and will direct her first documentary feature in 2023. She also supports tribal relations and business development with TrueAnarock on renewable energy. Ms. Eagle Heart is also a co-founder and strategic advisor to Return to the Heart Foundation, a non-profit focused on supporting innovative Indigenous women-led initiatives.
Her most recent accomplishments include publishing a personal development memoir in 2023, Ms. Eagle Heart published a personal development/memoir with her twin sister titled Warrior Princesses Strike Back: How Lakota Twins Fight Oppression and Heal through Connectedness; Executive Producer of award nominated documentary feature film Lakota Nation vs United States which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2022; and contributing to feminist anthology This is How We Come Back Stronger published in the UK and US in April 2021. Over her career, Ms. Eagle Heart has co-created advocacy campaigns with Anne Hathaway, John Legend, Mark Ruffalo, Taboo, The Episcopal Church, Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, the Obama Administration, World Council of Churches, and Women’s March.
Ms. Eagle Heart is the former CEO for Native Americans in Philanthropy (2015-2019) which focuses on increasing investment in Indian Country through education, engagement and empowerment. Her projects included: transitioning the Generation Indigenous initiative from the Obama Administration to the philanthropic sector in 2016; co-creating Indigenous Women Rise which inspired 1000 indigenous women to march in Women’s March on Washington, DC in 2017; co-created the StandNVote PSA with Mark Ruffalo, and created the Truth and Healing Campaign utilizing The Blanket Exercise. She also worked with Baobab Studios and Get Lifted to develop a virtual reality project titled “Crow: The Legend” in which she shared her voice for Luna, along with John Legend, Oprah, Liza Koshy, Constance Wu, Tye Sheridan and Diego Luna with narrator Randy Edmonds (Caddo/Kiowa). Ms. Eagle Heart also won an Emmy as a producer “Crow: The Legend” at 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Interactive Media.
Ms. Eagle Heart is also a former member of the staff of the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church headquartered in New York City (2009-2015) where she served faith-based communities internationally as a Program Officer for Indigenous Ministries and Team Leader for Diversity, Social Justice, and Environmental Ministries. She focused on supporting asset based community development, healing and cross sectional public policy initiatives with tribal leaders for over a decade, including sparking the world-wide movement to Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery in 2015.
Ms. Eagle Heart began her career working for almost five years at Viejas Casino and Outlets in Marketing and Advertising (2001-2005). She focused on events, promotions and communications. Ms. Eagle Heart’s experience working at grassroots nonprofits, corporate tribal organizations, and large international non-governmental organizations has allowed her the unique vantage point to amplify impact. In this current post genocide era in which history with Indigenous Peoples has been omitted from most school systems, she shares cultural knowledge to help organizations understand and navigate the essential need for advocacy, cross-cultural communication, collaboration, education, healing, mutual respect, and partnership for Indigenous Peoples.
Ms. Eagle Heart is a 2019 winner of the American Express Next Generation Leadership Award, as well as a winner of the 2017 National Center for the American Indian Enterprise and Development 40 under 40 Award. Ms. Eagle Heart holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications and American Indian Studies from Black Hills State University, as well as a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in global management from the University of Phoenix. Ms. Eagle Heart is currently serving on the board of directors for the PRISM Reports and The Women’s March. She is also a co-founder of the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.