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Sandra Sadek

Sandra Sadek is a freelance journalist based in New York. She is studying international reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY). Previously, she was a Report for America Corps Member in North Texas. Her work has appeared on the Fort Worth Report and KERA News. She will be interning this summer at EVN Report in Yerevan, Armenia.

Tareq Saghie

Tareq Saghie is an investigative journalist from New York City who is completing a master's degree at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY). He covers labor, immigration, and housing, and some of his other work can be found in BK Reader.

ALLISON SALERNO

Allison Salerno is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Athens, Georgia. She’s a seasoned print reporter, who also produces audio stories about farming, food, and social innovation, among other topics. You can find Allison on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

ZAYDEE SANCHEZ

Zaydee Sanchez is an independent documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. She focuses on homelessness, immigration, and racial discrimination.

Jimena Sandoval

Jimena Sandoval is a social communicator who studied at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in El Salvador. She is an entrepreneur and communicator known for her leadership in promoting equity and visibility for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. As the founder of Noisy Digital, the first trans-led marketing agency, Jimena focuses on empowering marginalized communities, particularly the TGI (transgender, gender expansive, and intersex) population. She has been involved in significant initiatives alongside organizations like The TransLatin@ Coalition and Bienestar Human Services. With a strong background in PR and marketing, Jimena works to amplify the voices and stories of the LGBTQIA+ community, creating impactful change and opportunities.

Sofia Sandoval

Sofia Sandoval is a regular contributor to palabra, editing video and articles. She’s an independent writer, filmmaker, and actress. A film history buff and an explorer of the works of Shakespeare, Sofia has worked with Women In Film And Video and the Imagination Stage and Silver Spring theaters, among others, in Maryland and Washington, D.C.

RICARDO SANDOVAL-PALOS

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is palabra’s founding editor. He is the Public Editor for PBS, an intermediary on ethics, integrity and standards between the broadcaster’s audiences and its creatives and journalists. Ricardo is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor. His reporting in Latin America earned awards from the Overseas Press Club and the InterAmerican Press Association. He’s also co-author of the biography, “The Fight In The Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.”

Fernanda Santos

Fernanda Santos has devoted her career to elevating the stories of underrepresented and misrepresented communities. She is a professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a writing coach in the Poynter Institute’s Power of Diverse Voices workshop and a co-writer of ¡Americano!, an off-Broadway musical based on the life of an Arizona Dreamer. Previously, Fernanda was the editorial director at Futuro Media, a contributing columnist at The Washington Post and a staff writer at The New York Times. Fernanda got her start in journalism in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her home country, and has reported in three languages, in Latin America and the U.S. She’s the author of The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and is currently working on a memoir. She lives in and loves New York City.

Mariela Santos-Muñiz

Mariela Santos-Muñiz is a freelance journalist based in Puerto Rico whose writing has appeared in Prism, and Nylon, among others. She works as the Collaborative journalism newsletter and database coordinator at the Center for Cooperative Media. Completely bilingual in English and Spanish, she has an M.A. in International Relations and International Communications from Boston University.

NANCY SAN MARTIN

Nancy San Martin is a freelance journalist based in Miami. She has 30 years of experience as a reporter and editor -- 20 of those at the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald.

Jack Sapoch

Jack Sapoch is an open source investigator at Lighthouse Reports.

GABBRIEL SCHIVONE

Gabbriel Schivone is a writer and investigative reporter originally from the Southwest U.S. borderlands.

JULIE SCHWIETERT COLLAZO

Julie Schwietert Collazo is a bilingual writer, editor, fact checker, and translator, as well as the co-founder and director of Immigrant Families Together, a nonprofit formed in 2018 to respond to the family separation policy. Along with Rosayra Pablo Cruz, she wrote The Book of Rosy/El libro de Rosy, published by HarperOne and HarperCollins Español in 2020. Both authors are featured in the documentary, “Split at the Root/Dividida en la Raíz,” which is streaming on Netflix.

KYRA SENESE

Kyra Senese is a Chicago-based reporter. She has recently reported on the COVID-19 pandemic for the Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ, and the Pioneer Press in Chicago.

KATE SEQUEIRA

Kate Sequeira is a junior studying journalism at the University of Southern California. She is the editor-in-chief of the university's newspaper, the Daily Trojan.

ANGILEE SHAH

Angilee Shah is a fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation and editor-in-chief of Charlottesville Tomorrow, where this piece will also run.

SIMI SHAH

is a metro Atlanta native. She is the Head of Business Development at Paperwork Studios, a media company building niche publications out of New York. Simi also founded South Asian Trailblazers, a professional content platform with a newsletter, podcast, and social media dedicated to showcasing South Asian stories. She also runs Shop South Asian, a platform to amplify South Asian businesses and serve as a resource network for South Asian entrepreneurs. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University. Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Josephine Sittenfeld

Josephine Sittenfeld is a photographer and filmmaker based in Providence, R.I. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Aeon Magazine, and Shondaland. Her coming-of-age documentary about a young man with autism filmed over a twelve-year span, Growing Up Ethan, is part of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” traveling exhibition, currently showing at the Ackland Art Museum, UNC Chapel Hill.

DIANNE SOLIS

Dianne Solis is a staff reporter at The Dallas Morning News and a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal based in Mexico. Most recently, she has reported extensively on the immigration crackdown by the Obama and Trump administrations and its impact on children. Throughout her career, she's written about people crossing borders, from tales of refugees from Iraq and Syria, to children from Honduras and El Salvador seeking asylum in Texas. Her passion? Finding the humanity in complex stories. She holds degrees from Northwestern and California State University, Fresno, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

DAN SOLOMON

Dan Solomon is a reporter at Texas Monthly. He writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film and business.

JUAN ANTONIO SORTO

Juan Antonio Sorto is a first-generation college graduate from El Salvador and a doctoral candidate at Texas Southern University's School of Urban Planning and Environmental Justice.

LILIANA SOTO

Liliana Soto is an award-winning journalist, an assistant professor of practice at the University of Arizona School of Journalism, an assistant director for the school's Bilingual Journalism Program, and a freelance bilingual multimedia journalist. She has 10 years of experience in broadcast news in English and Spanish, with a specialization in bilingual investigative journalism, immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, Latino issues, marginalized communities, and Mexican-centric Latin culture.

AUTUMN SPANNE

Autumn Spanne is a journalist, editor and educator who writes about science and the environment. Her stories have been featured in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Guardian, Reveal, Environmental Health News, the Christian Science Monitor, Inside Climate News and CNN. Previously, Autumn taught English and journalism on the Navajo Nation and later worked as an editor at Youth Communication, an award-winning educational publishing company in New York that trains young people in writing and journalism. She was a 2016-2017 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a 2006-2007 fellow of the Metcalf Institute for Environmental and Marine Reporting. Autumn currently serves as manager of newsletters and bilingual content for Environmental Health Sciences. She holds an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, an MA in education from Western New Mexico University, and a BA in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Originally from California, she now lives in Barcelona.

SREE SRIPATHY

Sree Sripathy is a staff photographer for India Currents magazine and a CatchLight Local Fellow as part of CatchLight's California Local Visual Desk.

Savanna Strott

Savanna Strott is a Las Vegas-based staff writer who covers environmental health. She is a Livingston Award finalist, and her work has been published by outlets including The Nevada Independent, Grist, the Texas Observer and the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

RAY SUAREZ

Ray Suarez is co-host of “World Affairs” on KQED-FM and public radio stations nationwide. He’s the author of “Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shapes a Nation” (Penguin).

VIJI SUNDARAM

Viji Sundaram formerly worked as health editor of New America Media in San Francisco and as a reporter for publications including India-West, a weekly for the South Asian community in the U.S., the Cape Cod Times, Providence Journal and New Bedford Standard Times. She has been awarded several fellowships and won 11 journalism awards, including one for her expose on McDonald’s use of beef in its so-called vegetarian fries

Quincy Surasmith

Quincy Surasmith is an audio producer and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. He is the host and executive producer of Asian Americana, a podcast featuring stories of Asian American culture and history. Quincy is also a co-founder of Potluck: an Asian American Podcast Collective, and is an alumnus of NPR’s Next Generation Radio. Previously, he was the producer-editor for the podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim and produced at Southern California Public Radio/LAist.