User:Smoynihan



Sandi Moynihan is an award-winning journalist, videographer and photographer located in Washington, D.C. Sandi is currently working as a multimedia journalist for the USO, although she continues to accept freelance work and is a regular contributor to Spright, a San Francisco-based fitness website. Sandi is also a public relations and corporate communications graduate student at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies.

In 2015, Sandi, along with Brad Horn, Sohail Al-Jamea and Tara Bahrampour, won an Edward R. Murrow Award in the Feature Reporting - Large Online News Organization category for their video about Romanian orphans for the Washington Post. For the same story, Sandi, along with Brad and Sohail, won second place in the documentary category of the White House News Photographers Association 2015 Eyes of History: Multimedia Contest. In 2014, Sandi won both a platinum and a gold MARCOM award for her work for the USO.

Sandi’s work has been featured by the Washington Post, the USO, Spright.com, Fiterazzi Magazine, country music artist Casey James, Grip the Mat, Sataya Health, United Women in Business, LetsGo.com, The GW Hatchet, Planet Forward, KPRC Local 2, The Nature Conservancy, PISA, the Potomac River Running Store, the Latino Student Fund, Alpha Delta Pi – Pi Chapter, The George Washington School of Media and Public Affairs and more.

Prior to working for the USO, Sandi worked as a video producer and web editor at the Washington Post, where she ran weekend video coverage. In 2014 - 2015 Sandi also worked as a writer/photographer -- and later assistant editor -- of Fiterazzi Magazine, which has since been re-branded as Spright. In 2014 – 2015, Sandi served as the Vice President of Digital Media for the D.C. Chapter of United Women in Business.

After college, Sandi worked as a video production intern for the Post, just after completing internships with the public policy communications team at Facebook and with the digital media team at The Nature Conservancy of California. During her undergraduate studies, Sandi interned at other organizations, including Planet Forward and KPRC Local 2, as well as worked as a multimedia reporter for GW’s campus paper, The GW Hatchet, and blogged for Letsgo.com.

In January 2013, a semester early, Sandi graduated summa cum laude with special faculty honors from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Whilel at GW, Sandi was named The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs’ Distinguished Scholar for 2013 and as a 2013 Luce Scholar finalist, as well as was awarded 2nd and 3rd place in the GW Foto Week 2012 contest. She also won the 2013 Roberts Prize, the 2013 Out of Classroom SMPA Student Showcase, and the 2012 Sherman Allen Page Scholarship Award for her exceptional work as a student journalist. Sandi was also recognized as an emerging student leader as a member of the 2011-2012 Student Athlete Leadership Program.

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but raised in Houston, Texas, Sandi, a former NCAA Division I softball player, loves to spend her free time playing sports, giggling with her friends, and concocting treats in the kitchen.

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