Sara Gómez Woolley is an award-winning Latina illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her clients include National Geographic, DC Comics, Image Comics, Scholastic, and Random House.

Her ongoing project, Esperancitaʼs Mostly True Memoir—a fictionalized graphic memoir created in collaboration with her mother and art partner, Leila Gómez Woolley—was awarded by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and is slated for publication by Lee & Low Books in 2026.

Sara was selected by the U.S. State Department to represent the nation at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée dʼAlger (FIBDA) in Algeria, where she served as a cultural ambassador and head juror for the international cosplay competition. FIBDA, with over 130,000 attendees, is the largest comics festival in the Middle East and Africa.

She is a tenured faculty member in the Communication Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and teaches in the Biography and Memoir program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is proud to serve on the Board of Directors of the New York Society of Illustrators.