{{Short description|American filmmaker and photographer}} '''Sachi Cunningham''' is an American filmmaker, surf photographer, and journalist.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tsui |first=Bonnie |date=2023-02-17 |title=A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/sports/big-wave-surfing-sachi-cunningham.html |access-date=2024-01-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Need A Day At The Beach? Tag Along With Big Wave Photographer Sachi Cunningham |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/874324710/need-a-day-at-the-beach-tag-along-with-big-wave-photographer-sachi-cunningham |access-date=2024-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-10 |title=San Francisco surf photographer turns lens on women and athletes of color |url=https://www.ktvu.com/sports/san-francisco-surf-photographer-turns-lens-on-women-and-athletes-of-color |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=KTVU FOX 2 |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career == Cunningham is the director and producer of SheChange, an upcoming documentary about female surfers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SheChange {{!}} About {{!}} Big Wave Women Surfers {{!}} San Francisco |url=https://www.shechangethefilm.com/about |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=SheChange |language=en}}</ref> She is also a journalism professor at San Francisco State University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sachi Cunningham {{!}} Department of Journalism |url=https://journalism.sfsu.edu/people/sachi-cunningham |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=journalism.sfsu.edu}}</ref>
She was a producer and director of photography for PBS FRONTLINE/World. She was also a video journalist for the Los Angeles Times.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roosevelt |first=Margot |date=2010-06-08 |title=Gulf oil spill: Cambodian cleanup workers speak out |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/greenspace/story/2010-06-08/gulf-oil-spill-cambodian-cleanup-workers-speak-out |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Education == Cunningham is an alumnus of Brown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Stepping Into Liquid |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2022-02-19/sachi-cunningham-surf-photographer |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=www.brownalumnimagazine.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Cunningham is a cancer survivor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Douglas-Rosa |first=Ashtyn |date=2017-06-11 |title=Photographer Sachi Cunningham, on overcoming cancer |url=https://www.surfer.com/features/sachi-cunningham-interview-cancer |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=Surfer Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
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