Sandhya Dirks

1 month ago | wfdd.org | Ari Shapiro |Sandhya Dirks

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Dec 4, 2024 | transom.org | Kalli Anderson |Sandhya Dirks

Intro from Transom: The first issue of Sound Fields was packed with original thought and essential commentary on the state of audio documentary -- as a craft and as an industry. For the launch of their second issue, editors Kalli Anderson and Sandhya Dirks offer this Transom manifesto with details about the Sound Fields mission, direction, and exciting projects in the pipeline. We are happy to support Sound Fields and all the publication has to offer.

Nov 29, 2024 | mprnews.org | Sandhya Dirks

There was a refrain we heard again and again from the seven Black women NPR talked with for this story. "It is exhausting," says Venita Doggett, who lives in Memphis, Tenn., and works for a nonprofit doing education advocacy. "We're tired. We're damn tired," another woman told us. She asked NPR not to use her name because she works in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at a public university in Minnesota, and she fears that a lot of people who work in and around DEI are being targeted right now.

Nov 28, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Sandhya Dirks

There was a refrain we heard again and again from the seven Black women NPR talked with for this story. "It is exhausting," says Venita Doggett, who lives in Memphis, Tenn., and works for a nonprofit doing education advocacy. "We're tired. We're damn tired," another woman told us. She asked NPR not to use her name because she works in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at a public university in Minnesota, and she fears that a lot of people who work in and around DEI are being targeted right now.

Oct 9, 2024 | npr.org | Sandhya Dirks |Gene Demby |Dalia Mortada |Leah Donnella |Xavier Lopez |Xavier Lopez | +6 more

Two Palestinian writers on the right to share their storiesIn the year since the devastating Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed. Even more have been injured or displaced. Still, many Palestinians across the diaspora feel that they aren't allowed to share their stories — that the fullness of their humanity is too often reduced to a few soundbites on the news, or images of people dying.