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Sarah Ventre is a Peabody-nominated audio journalist best known for her work as host of the award-winning podcast Unfinished: Short Creek, about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border. As part of her reporting for Unfinished, Sarah embedded in Short Creek and lived in former FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs’ house. Sarah also reported and produced Witnessed: Mystic Mother (a documentary podcast about a tantric temple), and was the senior producer for the Peabody Award-nominated second season of This Land (an investigation into the concerted effort to dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act), and Damages (a series about legal battles at the heart of the climate crisis). She has produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, Vox, Critical Frequency, Crooked Media, Campside Media, The African American Policy Forum, Center for Science and the Imagination, and The Moth. She is also a journalism fellow in the Recovering Truth project from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University, and was formerly a fellow with the Religion and Environment Story Project at Boston University and a resident at UnionDocs’ “Pod-Pod” in Brooklyn. She was once told by an artist with synesthesia that her voice is mauve.