Reporter wearing NYPD and EDNY press passes drinks coffee from an Anthora cup in a phone booth in Federal Court
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Sonja Sharp
Country
USA
Email
sonjasharp@gmail.com
Website and social media
twitter/instagram: @sic_sonja
www.sonjasharp.com
Bio
I'm the Westside reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a former instructor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, though I also write fiction and personal essays. Before I moved to LA in 2019, I worked as an NYPD-credentialed member of the New York City press corps, writing stranger-than-fiction stories of crime and culture for VICE, the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, among others. As a child, I survived a rare autoimmune disease that injured my spinal cord and left me paralyzed from the waist down; longterm sequelae include bone deformities, a grossly impacted gait and neurogenic changes to some internal organs that required surgical intervention and invasive daily procedures to manage. My abled identical twin is also an Ivy League professor who teaches disability literature and medical humanities — we are eager to collaborate on projects about twinship and ableism. I'm a proud #millennialmom.
