Sam Sedaei was born in 1982 in Iran. He lived in Tehran until 1999 before immigrating to the United States at age sixteen on his own. He went to high school in Chicago and received his bachelors in Economics and Political Science with concentration in Public Policy from Kalamazoo College in June of 2006.

During his time in Michigan, he organized the First Kalamazoo College Democratic Convention in 2004, was elected as the President of the Kalamazoo College Democrats for the 2005-2006 school year, became the founding editor-in-chief of the Lux Esto Law Review (the law review of Kalamazoo College), was invited by the board of Michigan American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to represent Kalamazoo College in a stimulated debate on affirmative action along with two other team members in the Kalamazoo District Courthouse and graduated with honors. Following graduation, Sam moved to Chicago where he was elected leader of the Economic Equity Team of the Chicago chapter of National Organization for Women (NOW).

He moved to Washington DC in 2007 to work for an international NGO.

Sam is also a featured blogger for The Huffington Post. His writings focus on American domestic, foreign, political and economic policies. You can view his page on The Huffington Post by visiting www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-sedaei.