Zaydee Sanchez
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Zaydee Sanchez is a Mexican-American visual journalist, documentary photographer, and writer based in Los Angeles, California. Inspired by her upbringing in California's San Joaquin Valley, Tulare, her work often centers on labor workers, culture, and migration throughout the US, Mexico, and Central America. By underlining community narratives, she seeks to provide meaningful and impactful work.
Zaydee is an International Women's Media Foundation grantee. A fellow at USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
In 2019, Zaydee's exhibition, "Tell Our Truth", documented the stories of Central Americans seeking asylum during the Trump administration at the U.S. southern border. The exhibition toured Los Angeles public libraries for a year, bringing discussions to various neighborhoods around the county.
In 2019, The Commission on the Status of Women honored Zaydee as one of the Pioneer Women of the Year for her documentation and devotion to highlighting the community of Skid Row in Los Angeles, California.
Zaydee is bilingual in Spanish and English.

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