Sarri Singer

Sarri Singer is an American activist who founded and directs Strength to Strength, an organization that supports survivors of terrorist attacks.

Background

Singer was born and grew up in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, where she graduated from Lakewood High School.^[1] Her father is New Jersey State Senator Robert Singer.^[2]

Career

Singer worked in an office two blocks from the World Trade Center until the 9/11 attack but overslept that morning and was not present during the attack.^[3]

In 2003, Singer was injured in a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem, resulting in a two-week hospitalization. The attack killed 17 people.^[2] Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.^[4] The 18-year-old suicide bomber had been recruited and radicalized by Hamas.^[5]

Singer co-founded One Heart Global, which brought teen survivors of terror attacks from five countries to New York in 2011.^[6][7] In 2012, Singer founded Strength to Strength. The organization has supported victims of terrorist attacks in Oklahoma City, Boston, Northern Ireland, France, Israel, Algeria, Iraq,^[2] Spain, Uganda, Kenya, Liberia, and Argentina.^[8] The nonprofit provides free services to survivors, their families, and victims' relatives, focusing on peer-to-peer support through retreats, social gatherings, speakers, and self-defense classes.^[9]

In 2013, Singer expressed concerns about Israel's plan to release 100 Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism.^[10]

In 2016, Singer testified before the national security subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, advocating for prosecution of perpetrators of terrorist attacks against Americans abroad.^[11]

Singer was named a special adviser to the UK National Emergencies Trust, a charity founded to respond to UK disasters after the Manchester Arena bombing, and the Westminster Bridge and London Bridge attacks.^[12]