About

Sandra Sadek is an award-winning freelance multimedia journalist based in New York City.

A former Report for America Corps Member, she spent over two 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.

Her work often sits at the intersection of local stories and global forces. As a first-generation American, she strives to make complex international issues accessible through human-centered reporting. While in Texas, she produced features on the resettlement of Ukrainian refugees, profiled an Afghan women’s rights activist rebuilding her life in the U.S., and examined the impact of Texas politics on conversations around the Israel-Gaza war.

Sadek’s recent reporting has taken her abroad to Armenia for two months, where she documented life along the border with Azerbaijan and explored the South Caucasus country's trajectory at a political crossroads. She has also reported along the U.S.-Mexico border, covering the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cross-border trade.

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 potential impact of DACA policy changes on Hispanic students. Her undergraduate thesis explored the U.S. role in the Yemen civil war, and her research delved into Western media’s self-censorship in its coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War.

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. Sadek is currently pursuing a master’s in journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, with a focus on international and visual reporting.