Sandhya Dirks
KPBS Metro ReporterAs KPBS’ Metro Reporter, Sandhya Dirks covers city news and politics for radio, TV, and online. She focuses not just on the political horserace, but on how policies affect people in the community. Prior to joining the KPBS Newsroom, Sandhya worked at Iowa Public Radio, where she covered the 2012 presidential campaign for that key state as well as state politics. Sandhya contributed regularly to NPR during the election year and produced stories for Harvest Public Media - a reporting collaboration focused on issues of food, fuel and field. As a state-wide reporter, Sandhya focused on stories of growing diversity in the heartland and investigated the broken mental health system in Iowa. Sandhya started her career in the Bay Area at public radio station KALW. Her work focused on investigative stories and features on poverty, violence, and the criminal justice system. Her work has been honored with a Mark of Excellence Award by the Society of Professional Journalists and a regional Edward R. Murrow award. Sandhya has a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she refined her audio skills and learned multimedia reporting, editing, and production. Her master’s project on international adoption earned her a prestigious Patsy Pulitzer Preston fellowship.
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Some of the first women to publicly accuse former mayor Bob Filner talk about what it was like to come forward, and why they waited to speak up. -
On Friday, the embattled mayor of San Diego officially steps down. Allegations of sexual harassment against him have rocked the eighth-largest American city, which now has to pick up the pieces and elect a new mayor. -
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner will resign at the end of the week, which means the competition for his replacement is already underway. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe city attorney's office is reporting that a deal has been reached with San Diego Mayor Bob Filner; it likely includes his resignation. But attorney Gloria Allred says she does not know the details of the proposed agreement. -
Mayor Bob Filner did not mention the sexual harassment allegations against him in his response to the recall effort. -
Saying that “ours was the wrong group to choose,” the leader of the National Women’s Veterans Association today launched a campaign to force Mayor Bob Filner to resign.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps