Maria Sacchetti

About

Maria Sacchetti is a national reporter covering immigration and the Department of Homeland Security for The Washington Post. Email for Signal: maria.sacchetti@washpost.comMaria was part of the Pulitzer-winning team at The Boston Globe that covered the Boston marathon bombings, and she investigated the FBI agent who shot and killed a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers. She was among the Pulitzer finalists for The Washington Post’s coverage of the El Paso massacre. She won the 2015 French-American Foundation's Immigration Journalism Award for her article, The Unforgotten, a story about hundreds, possibly thousands, of immigrants missing along the southern US border. http://tinyurl.com/pt4umha . How to identify the missing: http://tinyurl.com/ownv92x In Massachusetts, her work led to the release of several immigrants and the halting of deportation proceedings against others. She interviewed people on the street, at work, at home, in court and in jails. She also covered the secrecy of the immigration system, the deportation proceedings of President Barack Obama’s aunt and uncle, and the existence of a post-9/11 flight school teaching immigrants in the United States illegally to fly small airplanes.Overseas, she covered the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and traveled to Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, and Ecuador on assignment. Prior to the Globe, she investigated the education of Latino schoolchildren in California, leading to an initiative to improve educational attainment. She also spent several years in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, covering the Legislature, hurricanes and earthquakes and other issues. In Costa Rica, she reported on five hostage situations, including the sieges on the Nicaraguan embassy and the Costa Rica Supreme Court.She has a bachelor's in journalism and a master's degree in Latin American studies/ economics, with a focus on immigration. She is fluent in Spanish, speaks basic Italian and Portuguese, and proficient in computer-assisted reporting.