Sabra Boyd

Sabra Boyd is an award-winning journalist, keynote speaker, screenwriter, and former organ transplant and cadaver biomedical research coordinator. An editor for openDemocracy’s column on human trafficking and guest editor for Eater, her work has been featured in the New York Times, Saveur, Washington Post, Vice, Newsweek, IndieWire, Seattle Times, Psychology Today, HuffPost, and more. Last summer, Sabra produced her autobiographical play Baby CEO at the Edinburgh Fringe to great audience acclaim. Sabra created the true crime comedy about human trafficking and identity theft in order to reduce the public’s flattened perception of survivors and the oftentimes ridiculously Kafkaesque aftermath of surviving exploitation.

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| New York Times |
A 2,700-Mile Cycling Race Is Now Even More Extreme

| Saveur |
The New Frugal

| Eater |
How Indigenous Restaurants Are Decolonizing Seattle’s Dining Scene, One Plate at a Time

| Real Change |
Race the L8: Seattle’s latest bus races a clown on a tricycle

| Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions |
Success is in the Eye of the Funder

| Oregon Humanities Magazine |
Cascadian Gothic

| Privacy is Safety |
How tech companies are using human trafficking to justify eroding your data privacy rights

| How Do You Call CPS on CPS? |
Child Trafficking, Confidential Police Informants, and Child Welfare

| Eater |
A 24-Hour Food Tour Across Southern Vancouver Island

| Vice |
Life Sentence: What It’s Like to Look For a Job After Prison

| Eater |
This Bakery is Revolutionizing Bread with Molecular Science

| Washington Post |
As a homeless teen, I foraged for wild food to survive. The lessons still shape my cooking.

| Eater |
Seattle Pastry Shops Partner With Bakers Against Racism to Fundraise for Abortion Access

| Newsweek |
Olympic Athletes’ Testimonies Show Why Rape Victims Don’t Trust Police

| Eater |
Seattle’s Stalled ‘Poverty Defense Law’ Could Reform Policies for Hunger-Related Crimes

| Age of Awareness |
I’m a child trafficking survivor: QAnon has politically commodified my trauma

| Eater |
8 Seattle Places to go for Dinner and a Show

| Vice |
What It’s Like to Be Released From Prison During a Pandemic

| Born a Coen Brothers Movie |
The tragicomic omen of being born on the set of Raising Arizona, a story of stolen identity, and finding where you belong

| Eater |
On Hot Summer Days, Cool Down at These Seattle Events

| January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day |
But awareness of what exactly?

| IndieWire |
Fahgettaboudit: How ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Forget About the Mob’s Daughters

| Eater |
Seattle’s Food Trucks Are Fighting an Uphill Battle

| Seattle Times |
There’s never a good time to be homeless in Seattle. Now it’s even harder

| Eater |
On Vashon Island, Community Is Found at a Family-Run Syrian Food Cart

| Narratively |
What Working with Cadavers Taught Me About Life

| IndieWire |
What #FreeBritney Can Teach Us About Child Labor Laws

| HuffPost |
Zoom Dysmorphia

| Psychology Today |
Mafia Genes

| Triangle House |
Whale of a Time: Reading Moby Dick While Homeless as a Kid on the Northern California Coast

| Eater |
Foraging in the Pacific Northwest Is a Search for Hope Amid the Pandemic

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