Sonya Singh is an award-winning multimedia reporter, educator and adviser in Southern California.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, NME and more, focusing on news features and arts & culture coverage. She has photographed artists from small stages to stadiums, helped tell stories from inside prisons and interviewed hundreds of people from lawmakers to Slash. Her features on actor Aubrey Plaza and musician James Bay were featured on covers of Rogue magazine.

Singh holds a master’s degree from NYU and a bachelor’s from Pepperdine University, where she served as the executive editor of the weekly newspaper. She worked as an editorial assistant in London before beginning her freelance career back in Southern California, where she is also a journalism professor. She has led students in numerous service-learning projects, including five years as the volunteer media team for a nonprofit that aids incarcerated fathers at Angola Prison in Louisiana.

For her decade of work with student journalists, the national College Media Association named her a Distinguished Adviser in 2024. In the same year, her reporting for The Guardian earned an award from the Los Angeles Press Club.

She is available for writing, photography, copy editing and onscreen work.

Also, Tom Petty once smiled right at her, and it made her year.