Sara Gonzalez Devant was born in 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a Spanish mother and a Swedish father of Cuban heritage.

In 1985, during a raid into Gaborone conducted by the South African Defence Force, a family friend of the Devants, Thami Mnyele, was killed.

As a result of the team's success in delaying and ultimately preventing his extradition, the legal procedures were eventually dropped.

[2] She has been on Julian Assange's legal team throughout his captivity, including during his asylum period in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (2012–2019) and his incarceration in Belmarsh Prison (2019–2024).

[2][9] During Assange's seven-year period of political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the couple conceived two children, the first being born in 2017, and the second in 2019.