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Author: Zaydee Sanchez

Zaydee Sanchez is a Mexican American visual storyteller, documentary photographer, and writer from Tulare, California, in the San Joaquin Valley. She seeks to highlight underreported communities and overlooked narratives, with a focus on labor workers, gender, and displacement. Zaydee is an International Women's Media Foundation grantee and a 2021 USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Fellow. Her work has been published in Al Jazeera, High Country News, Palabra, National Geographic, NPR, and more. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Culture, Jobs, Living, Workers

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New York Times. Lucha libre, the Mexican version of professional wrestling, is thriving in Los Angeles, where the action and the masks draw fans to venues big and small.

Immigration, Workers

Co-published with The Wall Street Journal. Farmworkers in California’s Salinas Valley work with pesticides tied to illnesses, including some cancers.

Housing, Workers

Co-published with Mother Jones. After historic flooding, the California migrant farming community is trying to recover—even if help from FEMA is scarce.

Inequality, Workers

Co-published with High Country News. California farmworkers and their advocates walked 335 miles to the state’s capitol in support of voting protections.

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