Sandhya joined the Business Desk two years ago from Outlook, where she managed a team of reporters covering a range of regulated industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, food, energy and, most recently, transportation. In that role, she has overseen coverage of the coming Ozempic era, the nation's looming power crisis, this year's near-catastrophic Boeing explosion over Portland, and the failure of efforts to keep infant formula safe. . She also launched the first story in our year-long exploration of the care industry. Among them: how its high costs threaten the economic health of a generation of Americans, and how some facilities are evicting people when their savings are depleted. -Sad repercussions – Some homeless shelters are now building their own supportive housing units.
Before her one-year stint as Outlook editor, Sandhya spent four years as an editor at the National Desk, where she served as deputy editor for political affairs and research during the early turbulent years of the Trump administration. In her role, she led coverage of Donald Trump's vast business empire, including a foresight into her own net worth and Trump's wavering claims about the company's employment of illegal workers. It also included articles with clear information. Sandhya, a former Post intern, began her career here in 2006 as a reporter for the local desk's Loudoun County bureau. She then moved to the America Desk, where she covered two presidential campaigns and was an inaugural member of the America Desk, where she focused on social movements such as the fight to legalize same-sex marriage and the rise of Black Lives Matter. I guessed it. As a reporter, Sandhya was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes. In 2007, she was one of the first reporters to arrive in Blacksburg, Virginia, after a mass shooting on Virginia Tech's campus left 32 people dead. And in 2015, she used a groundbreaking database of police shootings to find that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to be killed in a police shooting than white men.
Sandhya grew up in Michigan and Maryland and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Please join me in celebrating Sandhya's new role. She starts her job on Monday.
