Sara Winegar Budge Psy.D.
Director of US Programs, Oregon Licensed Psychologist, Moonshot
2022, 2024, 2025
Sara Winegar Budge, PsyD is the Director of US Programs at Moonshot and a licensed psychologist in Oregon. Her clinical work focuses on individuals who are or have been involved in violent extremism. She has developed and delivered multiple training courses for mental health providers working with individuals involved in violent extremism or at risk of targeted violence. Dr. Budge has taught the psychology of terrorism at the undergraduate and graduate level and served as an instructor in the graduate program at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. She brings a deep understanding of the research and theory behind terrorism and targeted violence to the practices applied to prevent violence.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
