Sara Rouhi has worked in scholarly publishing – scholarly societies, publishers, and software providers – since 2008. Having completed her undergraduate and graduate work in political science and political theory, she brings a social science lens to the challenges of building an open science future in a shifting socio-political landscape. Her scholarly publishing work primarily focuses on making access to knowledge creation as sustainably open as possible by exploring partnership and non-traditional business models to enable greater participation in knowledge creation. In February 2025, she joined with Lisa Schiff, Catherine Mitchell, Alice Meadows, and Peter Suber as a co-author of the Declaration to Defend Research Against US Government Censorship. The DefendResearch.org group is dedicated to educating the public on the dangers of censorship in science. The website includes testimonials from researchers, toolkits for lobbying and educating in local communities, and resources around data rescue and cataloging of public statements/positions that #DefendResearch against government attack. Follow the team @DefendResearch.bsky.social and Sara, herself, @RouhiRoo.bsky.social on Bluesky.