Hailey Sadler

Hailey Sadler is an award-winning storyteller and researcher who has explored human experience across the Mediterranean and Middle East, Africa, southeast Asia and North and South America. Her work focuses on how humans hold onto their cultures, identities and concepts of home amidst changing environments due to climate, conflict and migration. She has collaborated with communities from the Warao in Brazil, Yazidis in Iraq, to Copts in Egypt, and Hadzabe in Tanzania. Her work is guided by a sensitivity for intimate, underreported narratives and a deep passion for community-led co-creation.

As a National Geographic Explorer, Hailey co-founded The Home Collective, a long-term multimedia project bringing together scientists, academics and storytellers to explore what home means in our changing world. Hailey’s work has been featured by National Geographic, the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN. She has also been featured at film festivals and exhibitions around the world, including at the United Nations and the Hague. She has received grants from the National Geographic Society, the International Women’s Media Foundation, Getty Images, Adobe, Solutions Journalism Network and the Berkley Film Foundation. Hailey has taught photography workshops including with the National Geographic Society Storytellers Collective and National Geographic Photo Camp—a program that uses photography to help young people around the world to tell their stories. Additionally, Hailey holds a Master of International Public Policy concentrating on international conflict from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and serves as a featured speaker at universities, events and conferences around the world.