Sarah Hill
Healium
Sarah Hill, CEO & Chief Storyteller for Healium, is a 12-time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller who’s led successful media teams for the last 25 years. Hill is a former interactive TV news journalist for NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri. She spent decades covering the world’s trauma in Sri Lanka, the Amazon River basin, Guatemala, Indonesia, Zambia, and Congo. A media technologist, Hill has a handful of patents for biometrically-powered stories to reduce anxiety, her company's mental fitness products are clinically validated in 9 peer-reviewed journals and used at the world’s top health, education, and sports enterprises. Hill speaks around the world about the intersection of sentient and spatial computing, media as medicine, AI, and storytelling with EEG, heart rate, respiration, and other bio-data inputs. Healium's roots are in virtual travel for Veterans. In 2013, Hill’s team built a program called “Honor Everywhere”, which uses mobile, virtual, and augmented reality to allow aging Veterans the opportunity to virtually visit their WWII, Vietnam, Korea, & Women’s Memorials. Hill is married with two grown children, three if you count her husband. They have one very spoiled grandchild.