Sonja Sharp is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the newsroom in 2019, she worked as an NYPD-credentialed member of the New York City press corps, writing stranger-than-fiction stories of crime and culture for VICE, the Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, among others. She is a Bay Area native, a graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia, and a proud Jewish mother.
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Sept. 15, 2023
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Sept. 4, 2023
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Sept. 3, 2023
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Aug. 11, 2023
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Aug. 3, 2023
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