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Sarah Salvadore is an independent data and investigative journalist.
Salvadore spent the past year collaborating on a multimedia investigation for The New Yorker. She worked as a fellow at Columbia’s Global Migration Project - writing and publishing stories of impact on women and girls, migrating from Central America's Northern Triangle. She is a 2016 alumna of Columbia Journalism School, New York, graduating with an MS in Data Specialization and Gender Migration.
Salvadore was part of Columbia's first cohort specializing in data-driven journalism. She is interested in telling human interest stories, using latest tools in data collection, analysis and visualization.
She previously worked with the Times of India in Hyderabad and Kolkata.
Podcast: The Runaways—On Racism, Police Negligence, And A Group Of Disappeared Latino Youth
Between 2016 and 2017, 11 high schoolers went missing in a Long Island county, all of them from the Latino community. But the Police in Suffolk County looked the other way. They told parents that their kids were ‘runaways’. Miguel Moran, a 15-year-old student from Brentwood High on Long Island vanished in February 2017. When his mother Carlota went to the police, she was disappointed – they showed no interest in looking for her son. Months later, Miguel’s body was found in the woods near the high school, notoriously known as an MS-13 hangout. Investigative reporter Hannah Dreier spent a year looking into the dreaded MS-13 in Long Island, and law enforcement inaction around the growing crimes committed by the gang.
The investigation, published in ProPublica in long form and on This American Life as a podcast, gives us a glimpse into Miguel’s life. Hearing the voice of anguished Carlota is heartbreaking. Dreier takes listeners through the ups and downs of a family’s search for their young son and reveals the brutality of MS-13 in Long Island. Most of the gang members were teenagers who went to Brentwood High. They had a dress code and tried recruiting new students into their gang. Miguel’s family was certain the gangs had taken him, but the Suffolk County Police didn’t think so and continued to list him as a ‘runaway’. But things changed when two American girls from Brentwood High, Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, were attacked by the gang. This made national news, and President Trump even invited the girls’ parents to his State of the Union address. Law enforcement jumped into action, and began searching the woods. That’s when they found Miguel’s body. Dreier takes us through the Police investigation, showing how Police ignored the pleas of low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants, but got active when the victims were US-born and their parents had nice homes, professional jobs and spoke English.
