A professor of arts and sciences in Global Family Health & Well-Being at Nebraska Methodist College, Sarah Rasby, PhD, focuses on the phenomena of family caregiving well-being. Sarah hopes to connect with other family caregivers through shared stories and experiences, using her Substack and academic journals to reach people. She believes personal stories are evidence, and that lived experiences are often missing in policy and cultural conversations about caregiving, disability, and community well-being. Writing has become a way for her to make visible what society often treats as private, individual or invisible work.

Sarah’s academic research, community organizing, and personal experience as a former family caregiver for her twin sister drive her expertise. And her motivation is simple: Caregiving is universal, but our systems are not built for it. Sarah has received academic fellowships and grant support to pursue family caregiving research, including serving as a project coordinator and researcher on a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded family health project from 2021 to 2025.

Through her work, Sarah strives to shift how society understands caregiving — from a private, individual responsibility to a shared societal identity rooted in strength, compassion, and value. She wants to build language, visibility, compassion, and cultural frameworks that validate caregivers across the lifespan, leading to improved policy, education, healthcare, and everyday community life. In doing so, she hopes to help others feel less alone and more part of a collective story.

Beyond writing, Sarah is expanding her dissertation project in the form of an intervention program called Self-Compassion for Family Caregivers. She also is piloting an initiative called Care For We that works with community members, policymakers, and researchers to expand the narrative that family caregiving is a universal experience. Whether the caregiver is a single mother to a child with a profound disability, or a spouse whose partner has ALS, or an adult child caring for a parent with dementia — caregivers are interconnected and experience much of the same struggles. Care For We recognizes that interconnectedness, rather than isolating caregivers and those they care for into unseen spaces.

Find Sarah on Substack at Yes! Care For We: https://sarahrasby.substack.com/ and on Instagram at @careforwe.