Sarah Gruen is a writer—of speeches, jokes, and the occasional recipe—based in New York City. As a Senior Director at West Wing Writers, she leads the firm’s humor cabinet, penning jokes, toasts, and roasts for everyone from former presidents to future ones—as well as for The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and Points in Case under her own name. She writes serious stuff too: her words, on topics ranging from diversity, inclusion, and equity, to ethical technology, to the future of higher education — have been read in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and have been heard at college commencements, global conferences, and major political events.