Samantha Sanders
School
Washington State University
Expertise
Urban Exploration, Budget Travel, Sustainable Tourism
- Sam has immersed herself in learning Spanish for the last eight years largely because of her love of traveling in Latin America.
- Urban ecology is endlessly fascinating to her and she spends much of her free time exploring the natural world in New York City and evangelizing about these unique ecosystems to anyone who'll listen.
- In addition to her writing and editing work, Sam has a background in podcast production and voiceover work and was chosen to be part of the 2019 Made in NYC podcast program cohort.
Experience
Sam has been a writer since childhood but editing (whether articles or audio) is what gets her going. She loves working collaboratively with writers and creators to help them make the most of their skills and tell the story they want to tell. Her interests and work have taken her all over the country and she's written about everything from ecology (sustainable travel, electric vehicles, lab-grown meat) and culture (Midwest architecture, etymology, film) to personal essays. She's previously worked for Writer's Digest and Artists Magazines and her work has appeared online at The Awl, Catapult, and Popula.
Education
Sam earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in social science from Washington State University. Prior to that, she studied sociology at the University of Cincinnati with an emphasis in urban planning.
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Stories By Samantha Sanders
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Scott Smith was just a student at the University of Manitoba in 1979 when he got a call offering him the bassist gig in a new band called Loverboy.
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Robin Zander, lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the band Cheap Trick, ruled the pop-rock airwaves in the '70s and '80s, but what is he worth now?
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When Rico Harris's girlfriend last heard from him, it was by voicemail. He'd been on the road, traveling from his family's home in Los Angeles back to Seattle.
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Licorice McKechnie, a musician from the '60s that performed at Woodstock, mysteriously disappeared around 1990, with no word since.
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It's been a long time since MTV viewers were entranced by Natalie Imbruglia's memorable rendition of "Torn." Here's how much Natalie Imbruglia is worth today.
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How well-off could a musician be whose heyday was nearly four decades ago? If you're Huey Lewis, the answer is: surprisingly wealthy.
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Ever make a mistake, try to make the best of it, and just hope no one notices? That's kind of the story of the Salton Sea, a former expanse of man-made lake.
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For nearly 20 years, people have worked to unmask one of this country's most-prolific, active serial killers, who is sometimes called the 'Craigslist Ripper."
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Former mobster Henry Hill and his wife Karen filed for divorce in 1990 after a tumultuous marriage and life in organized crime.
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When the job is just too much to delegate, popes can -- and have -- stepped down. Perhaps the most famous (and certainly most recent) example is Benedict XVI.
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It's been a terrific season in a very unusual year for the Fighting Illini, a fact many fans attribute to the leadership of head coach Brad Underwood.
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The tale appears to be one of a cold-blooded killer and a helpless victim, but the real story of Bernie and Marjorie (Marge) Nugent is much more complicated.
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911 operators in Cleveland answered a shocking phone call. The young woman on the line told the dispatcher, "I've been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years."
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According to some dog behaviorists, a lot of what goes on behind closed doors depends on your dog, its emotional state, and how it responds to routine.
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Ready for a quick creative exercise? OK, picture the worst fashion you can think of. Here's what our readers deemed the worst of the worst.
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Some muscles have become so unimportant, that many people no longer have them. If you're ready for a demo, roll up your sleeve and take a close look.
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Plenty of creepy places have vied for the title of "Most Haunted House in America," but one New Jersey house, at Sandy Hook Bay, has lots of people convinced.
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Wallace -- Biggie -- grew up in the borough's Clinton Hill neighborhood on a block of St. James St. now known as Christopher Wallace Way, says Curbed New York.
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Anything you can't prove basically becomes lore, and that's exactly what happened to an interview that Biggie Smalls gave a now-defunct free weekly in Toronto.
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The possibility of a child lost to an abductor is enough to stoke fear in the hearts of parents. It's a feeling Asha Degree's parents have known all too well.
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You'd expect former league MVP James Harden to be making bank, but the Brooklyn Nets shooting guard's bank account might be even more flush than you'd imagine.
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Despite a "200-strong ripper squad," the capture of Peter Sutcliffe, the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper, could effectively be chalked up to dumb luck.
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It turns out that what most of us have long assumed anecdotally about the connection between heat and bad behavior is now being borne out by science.
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When it comes time to name the world's most powerful, there's nothing you (or anyone else) can buy in a store that can even compete with the supercomputers.
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Brooklyn's Bobby Shmurda, the "Hot Boy" and "Shmoney Dance" rapper was released from upstate New York's Clinton Correctional Facility this morning.
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Given the long, downward trend in the numbers of working serial killers, it's likely that 2021's number is far fewer than 30, though no one knows for certain.
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You won't find it on Google Maps today, but San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast shaped -- and shamed -- the city in countless ways.