Sarah Kramer is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentarian and journalist whose video, audio and writing have been featured by The New York Times, Time, NPR, HBO and PBS.
Sarah was the second person hired at StoryCorps, a Peabody Award-winning public radio project. As founding senior producer (2003-2007), she created award-winning public-media content, developing StoryCorps’ signature sound and style. She and her team produced and edited the first hundred weekly broadcasts for NPR’s Morning Edition (now one of the longest running series on any NPR news magazine); launched the weekly StoryCorps podcast; and created the first book, The New York Times bestseller “Listening is an Act of Love,” (Penguin 2007).
During her time at StoryCorps, she also produced with writer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc “The Ground We Lived On,” a radio documentary that received the Third Coast Audio Festival's Listener Impact Award. Her radio work has been featured on Morning Edition, This American Life, Marketplace and All Things Considered.
Sarah left StoryCorps in 2007 for The New York Times, where she reported and produced narrative-driven work across media, including print, audio and video. Using her ability to conceive and weave complicated stories across media, Sarah created original web series and reported front-page stories. Her work garnered various awards, including an Emmy for “One in 8 Million” and an Emmy nomination for “Coming Out.” Most recently, at the Times, she was senior producer of video series and short documentaries.
Currently, Sarah is an independent producer working across media. Her audio credits include editor for Pushkin Industries and executive producer for BRICradio, BRIC’s podcast network, where she helped to launch the network and develop the first slate of shows. Her additional video work includes a documentary short on her father, “Period. New Paragraph.,” which premiered at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and a series of documentaries for Time’s 100 Photographs project, one of which, Untitled (Cowboy) was featured at LACMA. Sarah has also worked for Vanity Fair and independent production companies, developing documentaries.
She launched her career in documentary films for PBS and HBO. Her early credits include field producer, associate producer and researcher on films, including the Sundance-award winning “Miss America,” the Emmy-award winning “In Memoriam: September 11, 2001,” and Ric Burns’ “New York: A Documentary Film.”
Sarah is a fellow of the Sundance Institute’s New Frontiers Program and has taught at The New School and currently teaches at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Sarah lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two sons.
