Sara Cooper is an investigative journalist at The Chicago Reporter where her work focuses on social and criminal justice. Her interests have taken her reporting across a wide range of subject matter and mediums. Major projects she's worked on include a short documentary on lead contamination in Chicago, an embedded reporting trip to the Central African Republic with WWF researchers and long-form investigative work into the Illinois Department of Corrections. Her work also has appeared in WTTW, Chicago Health Magazine and Caregiving Magazine. She is a graduate of Northwestern Medill's MSJ program with a focus on health, environment and science reporting. 

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