About

As an immigrant and now first-generation American, Sandra Sadek strives to make complex international issues accessible through human-centered reporting.

Sadek’s recent reporting has taken her abroad to Armenia, where she documented life along the border with Azerbaijan and explored how Russia is looking to influence the 2026 parliamentary elections in the South Caucasus country.

She has reported along the U.S.-Mexico border, covering the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cross-border trade. In New York, she wrote about the multilingual mayor campaign of Zohran Mamdani in 2025, which was an SPJ Region One Mark of Excellence finalist.

Previously a Report for America Corps Member, she spent nearly three years covering housing insecurity and economic development for the Fort Worth Report in North Texas. Her reporting on barriers to affordable housing and a controversial city incentive package earned recognition from the Housing Narrative Lab, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Texas Managing Editors’ Association.

Sadek graduated from Texas State University with a degree in journalism and a minor in international relations. She was an active member of the campus’s award-winning Model Arab League and served as a reporter and editor at The University Star, covering the politicization of campus life after the 2016 election, Beto O’Rourke’s Senate campaign stop in San Marcos, and the impact of DACA policy changes on Hispanic students. Her undergraduate research included exploring the U.S. role in the Yemen civil war, and Western media’s self-censorship in its coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War. Sadek has a master’s in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, with a focus on international and visual reporting.

She is fluent in English and French, and conversational in Arabic and Spanish. She has lived across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She is currently based in Yerevan, Armenia.