Sara Daleiden facilitates civic engagement within developing landscapes, exercising arts and cultural exchange strategies based in over two decades of experience. With headquarters in Los Angeles and Milwaukee, her initiatives including MKE<->LAX encourage local cultures to value neighborhoods, public space, civic art, social entrepreneurship and racial and gender equity. Sara has consulted on organizational and leadership development, real estate development, and economic development, as well as strategy, facilitation and evaluation for numerous nonprofits, for profits and government bodies.

In Milwaukee, Sara focuses on translating a Rust Belt legacy city with a radial urban planning history into a trail network of active and inviting spaces for any neighbor. She believes trails can be places for neighbors of different racial representation to gather, in a city where a history of racial segregation can still be a felt experience on a daily basis. She collaborates with the City of Milwaukee and other civic leaders on the Beerline Trail Neighborhood Development Project, HomeWorks: Bronzeville and The Milwaukee Method of Creative Placemaking. Sara wrote an essay about the Beerline Trail in the Black Landscapes Matter book edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada and published by University of Virginia Press. She contributed to the recently published Urban Institute report Embedding Equity in Placemaking: An Examination of the Milwaukee Method of Creative Placemaking in Practice.