Born in Sardinia in 1983, Sara Chessa lives in the United Kingdom, where she works as an independent journalist, covering human rights, freedom of information, politics and society for several news outlets, including Global Insight, flagship magazine of the International Lawyers Association. Since 2019, she has covered Julian Assange's extradition trial for the news website Independent Australia. Following both the proceedings in London courts and other happenings in relevant contexts - such as the Council of Europe in Strasbourg - she analysed the key facts and political background of the case. In Italy, she wrote of the case for MicroMega and Dolce Vita Magazine. In 2023, the Italian publisher Castelvecchi published her book "Distruggere Assange. Per farla finita con la libertà di informazione". The work recounts the Julian Assange extradition trial and the peaceful protest of civil society to demand his release. For the Italian portal Filosofia in Movimento, Sara produced - together with Antonio Cecere - the video interview series "Libertà di informazione e diritti umani" on the relationship between democracy and the right to know. As a media freedom activist, she has been personally involved in initiatives to raise awareness about the WikiLeaks case among European institutional figures. In this capacity, together with John Shipton - Julian Assange's father - she has lectured on the issue at cultural and academic bodies. She was also an active participant in the informational meetings that led, in 2019, to the formation of the Italian Parliamentary Committee for monitoring the Assange case, founded at the time by Senator Gianni Marilotti. In 2011, in collaboration with Patrizia Manduchi, an ordinary professor at the University of Cagliari, she conducted field research in Kosovo, focusing on the secularised way of living the Islamic faith that characterises the country's Albanian population. A few months later, Sara earned her master's degree in Social Sciences and Development Cooperation with a thesis on Muslim History and Institutions that expounded the investigation findings. As a poet in the Sardinian language, she placed third in the 2021 edition of the Montanaru Literary Prize, organised by the municipality of Desulo (Nuoro). As a spiritual research scholar and yoga teacher, Sara Chessa holds seminars in London together with Federico Milanesi, with whom she founded the London Spiritual Development Centre, a classroom of practice where the founding principle is the absence of constituted authority and the sharing of tools for inner inquiry and reality.