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Book synopsis, blurbs/quotes, book cover images (.png and .jpg)
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Contact Sara Alvarado: sara@saraalvarado.com, 608-438-5005
Preferred Title: Sara Alvarado, Author/Speaker/Working for Racial Equity in Real Estate
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Book, Dreaming In Spanish, Info:

Publisher: Little Creek Press, ISBN: 978-1-955656-48-1
Author Q&A in Madison Magazine

“If you are looking for a Rock Star speaker, look no further than Sara Alvarado. She is great at moving an audience to action. She will make them laugh, she will make them cry. Best of all, she will motivate those in attendance. Sara is very personable and at ease in front of the audience and brings her real self to the stage.”

~ Colin Murray, Executive Director of Dane Buy Local

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About the Author

Long Version

WORD COUNT: 191 

Sara Alvarado is a writer, speaker, and teacher who believes that the way to handle challenges in life and business is to show up authentic, bold, vulnerable, and always ready for fun.  

As a fierce advocate for social justice, Sara has published a memoir, Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta (2023), The Racial Justice Toolkit for Real Estate Professionals (2020), a Guide for Change Agents (2016), and she is the creator of the Conversation Challenge: helping white people talk about race. Through her speaking and workshops, Sara creates awareness and inspires change with her straight talk and loving ways. 

Sara built her real estate business into a successful brokerage with her husband, Carlos, who now leads the Alvarado Real Estate Group. Working in real estate and for racial equity led her to co-creating OWN IT: Building Black Wealth, a groundbreaking initiative working toward eliminating substantial barriers to wealth and homeownership for Black and brown families. She is named founder of Step Up: Equity Matters in the Workplace, Badger Rock Middle School, and Nuestro Mundo Community School. 

Sara is a lover of love, spirit, dance, and adventure (with the music turned up) and enjoys family fun, traveling, challenging the status quo, and writing.

Short Version

WORD COUNT: 86

SARA ALVARADO is a white woman married to a native Mexican man with two multicultural, bilingual children. She is a writer, speaker, and fierce advocate for racial equity in real estate. Sara published her first book, Dreaming In Spanish in 2023, the Racial Justice Toolkit for Real Estate Professionals, a Guide for Change Agents, and numerous articles and essays. Sara and her husband, Carlos, own Alvarado Real Estate Group and feel most at home in Madison, Wisconsin, and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Learn more at: www.SaraAlvarado.com

Podcast Long Version

WORD COUNT: 223 

Sara Alvarado is a writer, speaker, and fierce advocate for racial justice in real estate. She believes that the way to handle challenges in life and business is to show up authentic, bold, vulnerable, and always ready for fun. Sara is a white, cisgender woman married to a Mexican man with two multicultural, bilingual children. 

Sara published her first memoir, Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta in March of 2023. She has also published the Racial Justice Toolkit for Real Estate Professionals, a Guide for Change Agents, and she is the creator of the Conversation Challenge: helping white people talk about race. Through her speaking and workshops, Sara creates awareness and inspires change with her straight talk and loving ways.  

Sara built her real estate business into a successful brokerage with her husband, Carlos, who now leads the Alvarado Real Estate Group. Working in real estate and for racial equity led her to co-creating OWN IT: Building Black Wealth, a groundbreaking initiative working toward eliminating substantial barriers to wealth and homeownership for Black and brown families. She is named founder of Step Up: Equity Matters, Badger Rock Middle School, and Nuestro Mundo Community School.

Short Podcast Version

Sara Alvarado is a writer, speaker, and fierce advocate for racial equity in real estate. She recently published her first memoir, Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta, and is the co-owner of Alvarado Real Estate Group, co-founder of OWN IT: Building Black Wealth, and author of the Racial Justice Toolkit for Real Estate Professionals and the creator of the Conversation Challenge: helping white people talk about race. Sara is a white, cisgender woman married to a Mexican man with two multicultural, bilingual children. Links to her writing, upcoming events, and other projects can be found at www.saraalvarado.com.

Book synopsis/back cover

WORD COUNT: 124

At age twenty-four, Sara Alvarado bought a one-way ticket from the midwest to Mexico determined to heal from years of hard partying and sexual trauma. In this raw and inspiring memoir, Sara takes readers on a journey as she struggles with being newly sober, unexpectedly in love – and then suddenly, terrifyingly pregnant. Guided from afar by her wise and loving mother and her emerging spiritual connection, Sara confidently (yet full of self-doubt) faces the complexity of a multicultural marriage and motherhood in a foreign country. In vivid, storytelling prose, Sara shares the messy dance between cultures, classes, languages, traditions, white privilege, and a desire to belong. This epic love story confronts tough topics and uncertainty in an honest voice that is refreshing and witty.

Book Blurbs/Quotes

“It’s easy to love this vulnerable, tell-it-like-it-is healing journey. Alvarado’s self-discovery, self-compassion, and resilience buoy us all. I didn’t want to put this down.”

~ Heidi Rose Robbins, author of Everyday Radiance: 365 Zodiac-Inspired Prompts for Self-Care and Self-Renewal

“Soul-filling! This enchanting story of hope, humanness, adventure, and love brings us face-to-face with our own understanding of what it means to surrender and begin to trust again. Sara Alvarado shares a story from Madison to L.A. to Mexico that allowed my soul to feel the weaving of courage, heartbreak, hope, strength, softness, and surrender on the same day. This memoir grabbed my heart.”

~ Allison Crow, author of Unarmored: Finding Home in the Wild Edges of Being Human

“It’s one thing to break free of the forces of sexual assault and substance abuse, and quite another to bravely pursue a new kind of future, one of struggle but also joy, beauty, and lasting love. In this thoughtful and generous memoir, Alvarado reminds us of the profound power of second chances, courage, and self-acceptance. What begins as a careful recollection of misspent youth transforms into a messy and complicated love story—the best kind.”

~ Susanna Daniel, author of Stiltsville and Sea Creatures

“Often, moms squeeze into tight, neat, socially acceptable boxes out of fear of being seen as “unfit” or “unsafe.” We sanitize our stories and deny our humanity, hoping to be seen as “good” mothers. Through Dreaming in Spanish, Sara Alvarado gives us complexity and fullness and an invitation to be whole.”

~Sagashus Levingston, PhD, author of Infamous Mothers and Covet: the “Disrespectful” Health and Wellness Journal

“Dreaming in Spanish is an entertaining and beautifully vulnerable memoir that will just as soon make you laugh as make you cry. Alvarado’s honest and confessional tone is a welcome antidote to the filtered and curated world of media that we all grapple with on a daily basis.”

~ Susan Gloss, USA Today Bestselling Author of Vintage and The Curiosities

“Sara Alvarado’s Dreaming in Spanish is a story of seeking and finding, asking hard questions like what love should look like and where home is. This story is everything you want in a memoir—frank, generous, wise, and open-hearted.”

~Michelle Wildgen, author of Wine People, You’re Not You, But Not For Long, and Bread and Butter

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