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“We have this inherent power as journalists because when people tell us a story, we are the ones that get to decide how it’s processed and distributed. That’s a huge responsibility and I take it really seriously.” ~ Sarah Venture
That’s the spirit with which Sarah Ventre does her work, because finding truth and perspective is her mission.
Raised in Phoenix by an interfaith family, Sarah always wanted to be an archaeologist, until she later realized that studying the living was more her drive and heartbeat.
In this episode, Sarah shares the ups and downs of doing all that she possibly could to pursue her passion of storytelling. Her advent from working in an archeology lab to impacting communities by telling their stories and shining a light on their cultures will inspire both awe and admiration of the tenacious journalist that Sarah is.
Connect with Sarah Ventre:
Website: https://www.sarahventre.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarazonah/
Unfinished-short Creek: https://www.witnesspodcasts.com/shows/unfinished-short-creek
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Sarah Ventre is an award-winning audio journalist best known for her work as host of Unfinished: Short Creek, a podcast about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border. It was named the #3 best podcast of 2020 by The New Yorker, one of the best podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic, and made the Bello Collectiveโs year-end list as well. Her reporting in this community has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Wilbur Award, multiple Religion News Association Awards, and nominations from the Association of Mormon Letters and the Ambie Awards. As part of her reporting for Unfinished, Sarah embedded in Short Creek and lived in former FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffsโ house.
Sarahโs was the reporter, writer, and managing producer for the show Witnessed: Mystic Mother, a series about a tantric temple that was considered a spiritual home by some, and an illegal brothel by others. She was also the senior producer for the Peabody Award-nominated second season of This Land (an investigation into the concerted effort to dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act), and Damages (a series about legal battles at the heart of the climate crisis). She's produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, Critical Frequency, Campside Media, Center for Science and the Imagination, Jewish Womenโs Archive, and others. She is one of the founders of Girls Rock! Phoenix, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering girls, trans, and gender nonconforming youth through music, and is a regional producer for The Moth. She is also a journalism fellow with the Recovering Truth project from the Center for the Study of Rโฆ Read More
