National Correspondent, Race and Identity
NPR
Crockett, California, United States
Sandhya Dirks is a National Correspondent covering race and identity for NPR. Dirks covers everything from social justice movements to policing, from education to threats to democracy, as well as the shifting demographics of cities and suburbs.
Previously Dirks helped report and produce the first season of the podcast On Our Watch, which investigated police misconduct in California, and the podcast American Suburb, which traced a new "great migration" of people of color to suburbia. For years she covered race and equity for KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area's Public Radio Station. At KPBS in San Diego, she broke the story of a sexual harassment scandal that led to the mayor's resignation and at Iowa Public Radio she covered the 2012 Presidential race from the midwestern swing state. She got her start in radio working on documentaries about Oakland that investigated the high drop-out rate in public schools and mistrust between the police and the community. Dirks is the mother of a cancer survivor and believes all stories are stories about power.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT