Sarah Hurwitz is an American speechwriter. A senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010, and head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama from 2010 to 2017, she was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by Barack Obama after leaving the White House.
Hurwitz is from Wayland, Massachusetts. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and began her career as an intern in Vice President's Al Gore's office in 1998. She was Chief Speechwriter for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and Deputy Chief Speechwriter for the Presidential campaigns of Senator John Kerry and General Wesley Clark.
Hurwitz wrote Hillary Clinton's 2008 concession speech. She was offered a job as a member of Obama's presidential campaign team days after Clinton delivered the speech. Her first assignment for Michelle Obama was to work with her on her address to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She also wrote Mrs. Obama's speeches at the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions. Hurwitz also worked on policy issues affecting young women and girls as a senior advisor to the White House Council on Women and Girls. After leaving the White House in 2017, she served as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
