Samantha Sunne is a freelance journalist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the recipient of three national grants and several awards for investigative reporting, with work published in NPR, the Washington Post, NOLA.com and other outlets. She speaks at conferences, universities and newsrooms around the world, including for Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Lede Program at Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She can be contacted at [email protected].