About

Photo: Ivan Lagos

Originally from South Salem, NY, she earned her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 2022 with a double major in Film & Media Studies and English Literature.

She now works as a graphic designer at Reese Witherspoon’s media company Hello Sunshine, designing for internal brands like Reese’s Book Club and The Home Edit, and with outside clients through the Hello Sunshine marketing agency, Solar. She also writes an interactive newsletter called Enrichment Activities where she shares illustrations, recommendations, and reviews every Monday. Her current animation project, Life in Big City, is an upcoming web series documenting the lives of humans and anthropomorphized animals in a futuristic single-city world.

Sahra Denner is an illustrator and animator based in New York City.

  • Columbia University, BA in English Literature and Film & Media Studies (2017 - 2022, gap year 2020 - 2021)

    ✦ The Blue & White, illustrations editor

    ✦ Ratrock Magazine, yearbook editor

    ✦ Columbia Residential Life

  • ✦ Graphic Designer, Hello Sunshine (January 2023 - present)

    ✦ Jr. Graphic Designer, Rising Tide Interactive (July 2022 - December 2022)

    ✦ Marketing Intern, Adult Swim (January 2022 - April 2022) / Birdgirl, Tuca & Bertie, Primal

    ✦ Digital Design Intern, NBCUniversal Late Night (September 2021 - December 2021) / Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers

    ✦ Art Direction Intern, McCann New York (June 2021 - August 2021) / Mastercard, 3M, March For Our Lives

    ✦ Graphic Design Intern, Club Feast (January 2021 - March 2021)

    ✦ Graphic Design Intern, Rising Tide Interactive (September 2020 - November 2020)

    ✦ Graphic Design Intern, INKA (June 2020 - August 2020)

    ✦ Graphic Designer, The Power Thread (May 2020 - August 2020)

    ✦ Graphic Design Intern, BUST Magazine (May 2019 - August 2019)

    ✦ Editorial Intern, Westchester Magazine (May 2017 - June 2017)

    ✦ Gallery Assistant, Red Fox Art Gallery (March 2017 - July 2017)

  • ✦ Pat Anderson Prize in Film Reviewing 2022, “The Weirdest Thing Just Happened to Me: Aliens, Apocalypse, and the American Teenager in the Work of Gregg Araki”

    ✦ MAIP 2021 Fellow, 4A’s Foundation (February 2021 - August 2021)

As a freelancer, she has worked with clients including Gal-Dem, Intersectional Environmentalist, Monument, and the 2020 Suraj Patel campaign. She teaches a yearly typography workshop with The Next IT Girl, a nonprofit that provides technology education to young women of color. A fun fact about her is that she was randomly an extra in the Academy Award-nominated film Don’t Look Up.

If you are interested in a commission or collaboration, please email sahra.denner@gmail.com. Résumé and references are available upon request.