Sarah Ventre is an award-winning audio journalist best known for her work as host of Unfinished: Short Creek, a podcast about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border named one of the best podcasts of 2020 by The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Her reporting in this community has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Wilbur Award, multiple Religion News Association Awards, and an Ambie Award nomination. As part of her reporting for Unfinished, Sarah embedded in Short Creek and lived in former FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs’ house.

Sarah is currently working on a documentary podcast about a New Religious Movement, and was the senior producer for the second season of This Land (an investigation into the concerted effort to dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act). She's also produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, Critical Frequency, Campside Media, the Center for Science and the Imagination, the Jewish Women’s Archive, and others. She is one of the founders of Girls Rock! Phoenix, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering girls, trans, and gender nonconforming youth through music and is a Regional Producer for The Moth. She is also a journalism fellow with the Recovering Truth project from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University, and a fellow with the Religion and Environment Story Project from Boston University.