Meet Sam Stroozas
Sam Stroozas is a digital producer for MPR News where she writes about gender, sexual health and life in Minnesota. She also leads coverage on the MPR News Instagram account.
Before joining MPR News, Sam freelanced in Chicago for multiple publications, including Newsweek, Ms. Magazine, the Chicago Reader and In These Times. She worked at the Evanston RoundTable, a nonprofit newsroom in Illinois, as a digital engagement reporter and as a reporting fellow at Rebellious Magazine.
Sam’s work has received several awards and distinctions, including multiple Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association, an Eric Sevareid Award from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association and a Public Media Journalists Association award.
Sam graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse with a double major in English and media studies and a minor in women, gender and sexuality studies. She then went to Northwestern University in Chicago for her master’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, where she specialized in social justice and investigative reporting. She is originally from western Wisconsin.
In her free time, Sam enjoys reading, practicing yoga, spending time with her cat and exploring different parts of Minnesota.
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Recent Contributions
- Minneapolis decriminalizes adult bathhouses, ending AIDS-crisis-era ban
- LGBTQ+ magazine Lavender Magazine publishes last issue
- Minneapolis City Council votes to repeal ban on adult bathhouses, sex venues
- The annual Wedge cat tour in Minneapolis is Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know
- Dozens speak in favor of repealing Minneapolis ban on adult bathhouses, sex venues
- Minneapolis City Council to hear public comments on effort to repeal adult bathhouse ban
- In a reading slump? Check out these summer recs from bookstores and libraries on the North Shore
- Minnesota State Fair unveils new cookbook looking back at 50 years of blue ribbon winners
- Two panels from national AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in Minneapolis
- Pine City plants its marker as home to the first rural Pride in the U.S.
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