Sabrina Howard

Sabrina Howard

Associate Director, Cultural Strategy (Los Angeles)

As a self-proclaimed ‘cultural studies nerd’, Sabrina was thrilled to join Crowd as an associate director of cultural strategy in 2022. After realizing in college that her fascination for thinking about people and society could be parlayed into a career, Sabrina pursued a PhD in American and Ethnic Studies. Her dissertation was an ethnographic exploration of the social politics of everyday life in public space through the lens of public transportation. Immediately following graduate school (and before joining Crowd) she worked at a futures consulting think tank, where she came to understand the power and potential of foresight thinking. When she’s not ruminating about the human experience, you can find Sabrina lifting heavy things at the gym, teaching yoga, or adding countries to her travel list (she’s been to over 30 so far!). Sabrina is proud to be one of the inaugural members of Crowd’s LA team.

  • Narrated Galleries

    We love films, but narrated galleries – fusing showreels of still images and audio of participant commentary – creates outputs that allow for high levels of reflection and audience empathy. Ideal for user experience work, in other words

  • Crowd Communities

    We’ve a wealth of experience at setting up and managing communities for clients, with learnings on how best to engage audiences and a full box of tricks for maximising what we get out of the work – including geo tagging, streaming in social media data and a mobile optimised platform

  • Pinterest

    We’ve used Pinterest to really good effect on a number of projects recently, helping us to explore differences and commonalities among different typologies in areas such as fashion and style, home, holidays and entertainment. Engagement levels with participants always rank high, and clients love the vividness and clarity of the findings.

  • Citizen Journalism

    Citizen journalism works on the principle of making reporters of our participants, briefing them to capture what’s happening in the lives of their friends and family via video dispatches and blogging. It gets us places where we can’t otherwise get. It bypasses the bias of having a researcher in attendance. People are often more accurate reporters on those around them than on themselves, so that’s another bias circumnavigated.

  • Network Audits

    If you want to really understand how people interact with those around them, it’s logical to research interconnected groups of friends, family and work colleagues. First developed as part of our award winning word of mouth research for Guardian News & Media, and since then refined and reconfigured across a range of global projects, our network audit approach helps us understand who’s influencing who as authentically as possible.