Sandhya Dirks

About

Journalist and audio documentary storyteller who reports on civil rights, policing, marginalized communities, the multiracial far right, race and identity, the grief crisis and systems of power. A long time public radio reporter, including NPR's correspondent covering race and identity across the country, I am now an Assistant Professor of English, teaching creative nonfiction and audio documentary at Dartmouth. I'm currently working on projects about the capture of civil rights law and language to undo civil rights, the great grief crisis, and a look at my grandmother's life as one of the voices of Congress Radio, an underground anti Colonial radio station operating just before India gained independence, and how her story connects to my own attempts - and failures - to make revolutionary radio.