ProPublica announced that Zaydee Sanchez has been hired as its next photojournalism fellow. She will collaborate on ProPublica’s in-depth investigative team projects and pursue her own original visual stories. She started on March 30.
“We are delighted that Zaydee will bring her significant storytelling talent to elevate our high-level and impactful work,” Boyzell Hosey, senior editor of visual storytelling, said. “As we build upon the success of our fellowship program, we are committed to providing her with comprehensive mentorship and leadership. We look forward to helping her achieve her goal of becoming an exemplary and inspirational visual journalist.”
Sanchez is a documentary photographer and writer from Tulare, California, an agricultural town in the San Joaquin Valley that has shaped much of her work. Her photography has concentrated on labor, the environment and migration.
She is a recipient of the 2025 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, recognized by a panel of judges for her coverage of farmworkers, migrants and transgender Latinx groups. Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and ProPublica, where she contributed original photography to a series on immigration and shared a byline with Max Blau on “The H-2A Visa Trap.”
Sanchez currently serves as the president of the Visual Task Force board of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, which amplifies the work of Latinx visual journalists across the country through education initiatives.
