Sarah Conway is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter in Chicago. She writes narrative stories rooted in records, data, and public engagement. She believes in collaborative on-the-ground reporting to produce stories that often counter the conventional wisdom on societal issues. 

Sarah covers how government failures and public health crises often amplify the preexisting issues of labor exploitation, police misconduct, the state's care of minors, and gender-based violence. Her work has prompted policy changes, the passage of new legislation, city investigations, and more.

She has won numerous awards for her reporting, including the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting, the Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, and the Izzy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media.”

Sarah is the Annenberg Visiting Chair of Journalism at Notre Dame University, where she teaches a class on community engagement journalism.

She was awarded a University of Southern California
Annenberg Center for Health Journalism data fellowship for her writing on mental health and youth in the child welfare system. She is also an artist in residence at the Chicago Art Department, where she curates a community cinema club to bring people together. 

She lives in Chicago, not far from the Rust Belt town where she grew up and fell in love with the written word.