Meet Sarah Thamer
Sarah Thamer is a senior reporter for the MPR News Race, Class and Communities team. Before joining MPR News, Sarah worked as a reporter and anchor in local television news. She started her career at WKBT in La Crosse, Wisconsin, then made her way to ABC-affiliate WISN in Milwaukee. Sarah has covered a wide array of topics from the Milwaukee Bucks championship win, to uncovering illegal practices in Wisconsin’s foster care system.
Sarah has a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in public health from the University of Minnesota. Growing up in Richfield, she is thrilled to be back home covering stories in familiar communities. Sarah is passionate about telling stories in underrepresented communities and using her platform to help inform the public and share new perspectives.
Sarah loves hiking and welcomes suggestions! If you have a story or idea you'd like to share, email her at sthamer@mpr.org.
Recent Contributions
- Eighth Circuit says some immigrants arrested in U.S. can be detained without bond hearings
- Minnesota sues feds for evidence in ICE shootings
- Court filing: Family of man detained by ICE in Texas worry he's not getting care he needs
- Hundreds of Minnesota attorneys volunteered to help free people detained by ICE
- Judge finds 'troubling' evidence ICE agents stopped people based on racial, ethnic identity
- Man in apparent mental health crisis taken by ICE from hospital, transferred out of state
- Man released from ICE custody felt stuck while waiting for return of ID, work permit
- Judge hears arguments in lawsuit alleging ICE racially profiling Somali and Latino residents
- Court hearings Tuesday, Wednesday in lawsuit alleging ICE agents racially profiled U.S. citizens
- ICE reportedly on the way out, but some are still wary
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