Sabra Boyd (she/they) is an award-winning investigative journalist, consultant, former hospital admin, editor, keynote speaker, media relations liaison for trafficking and housing issues, web developer, and peer mentor who provides writing and media relations workshops for unhoused communities, trafficking survivors, and sex workers.

In 2022, Sabra advocated for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to change to a US policy that harmed trafficking survivors who were financially abused and whose identities were stolen. After she highlighted a policy that prevented survivors from applying for federal grants and fellowships, every US agency began implementing changes to change this so that survivors can safely be eligible. She also co-authored the Survivor Storytelling Workbook at the National Survivor Network, and created the Trafficking Survivor-Vetted Movie List with the help of survivors around the world

Sabra mentors other survivors, helping them get published to amplify their stories and perspectives, as well as teaching introductory journalism classes and ESL creative writing workshops. Sabra is a member of Survivor Alliance, National Survivor Network, the steering committee for Freedom Network USA, serves on the board of directors for the Housing Justice Project, and is a co-founder of Sex Workers and Survivors United who testified before the UN’s Human Rights Committee in 2023. She regularly provides trainings for survivors, sex workers, and unhoused neighbors on media relations and safety when speaking with the press. Sabra is working on a book about human trafficking and the tech industry, as well as a screenplay for an ensemble cast about human trafficking that will create a platform for survivor writers to share their stories and knowledge of the nuanced spectrum of exploitation and its root causes, because trafficking survivors are not a monolith, and we are more than what happened to us. In all her work, Sabra focuses on always building a bigger table.

When she isn’t working to protect human rights, Sabra sings opera, makes chainmail, distills perfume, and writes screenplays. She also sleeps sometimes.