Sarah Ventre

Sarah Ventre is an independent podcast producer, currently working on a long-form documentary podcast produced by Stitcher and Critical Frequency. Previously she was a Senior Producer at Phoenix's NPR station KJZZ, a producer and editor at NPR headquarters in Washington, and taught Podcasting at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting on the community on the Utah-Arizona border known for being home to the FLDS church, and is one of the founders of Girls Rock! Phoenix, a nonprofit organization that works to empower girls, trans, and gender nonconforming kids through music. She is always up for a good laugh or a great chile relleno, and loves collaborative creative work and the desert.