An independent publisher, SAGE was founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune. SAGE has more than 1,000 employees globally from principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington DC. SAGE’s publishing program includes more than 650 journals and over 800 books, reference works and electronic products a year in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine.

SAGE also owns and publishes under three imprints: Corwin Press (since 1990) CQ Press (since 2008) and Learning Matters (since 2011).

In 2012 SAGE was named the Independent Publishers Guild Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year.

Sara Miller McCune is Executive Chairman of SAGE Publications and President of the McCune Foundation. She founded SAGE in 1965 in New York City and moved the company to Southern California in 1966, serving as its President for 18 years and becoming its Chairman in 1984, developing the company with her husband George D. McCune. She currently serves as a Director of SAGE Publications Ltd, SAGE’s affiliate in London, and also of Corwin Press.

Sara Miller McCune (born 1941) is the co-founder and Chair of SAGE Publications.

She founded the independent academic publishing company SAGE with her late husband George McCune in 1965. She is on the Board of Directors of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2008, she announced the launch of Miller-McCune magazine, published in print and online, by the nonprofit Miller McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, with support from SAGE.

She has funded schools in the developing world, and made contributions to California organizations and educational establishments, including $2.5 million to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, $3.5 million to found the SAGE Center For the Study of the Mind at UCSB, and over $5 million to the Granada Theater Restoration Project. She is also a trustee and supporter of the UCSB Foundation She founded the charitable McCune Foundation in 1990. In 2003, she received the Spirit of Entrepreneurship award at the Entrepreneur of the Year awards, sponsored by Ernst and Young.Women’s Campaign International (WCI) recently honored her at an event entitled Shattering The Glass Ceiling: Honoring Inspirational Women Around The Globe.