Party People

Sara Fagen is a former director of the White House Office of Political Affairs under George W. Bush, who also remains the youngest person to ever hold that prestigious title. A native of Dubuque, Iowa, Sara got her big break in politics when she was recruited by Karl Rove to put her intimate knowledge of her electorally crucial home state to work helping elect then-Texas Governor Bush to the White House in 2000—a job that put her smack-dab in the middle of one of the biggest political stories of the past century. She went on to work for President Bush for eight years in total, including multiple roles in the White House and a stint as a senior strategist for his successful 2004 reelection campaign, where she earned her peers’ respect and a reputation for being one of the smartest, most data-savvy operatives in the Republican Party. Since leaving the White House in 2007, Sara has founded or co-founded several successful companies in the data, analytics and strategic consulting spaces, making her one of the mos