Maria Sacchetti is an award winning journalist based in Washington, D.C. She is a reporter at The Washington Post, covering immigration. ^[1]

Maria Sacchetti graduated from University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Spanish. She went on to attend The University of Texas at Austin, where she received a Master's degree in Latin American studies.

Prior to joining The Washington Post in March 2017, she was a reporter at The Boston Globe. Her reporting led to the release of several immigrants from jail.

Maria Sacchetti investigated the secrecy surrounding the United States. immigration system and covered the deportation hearings of President Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives.

Sacchetti was a member of the Boston Globe staff that shared in the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

Before the Globe, she investigated the education of Latino schoolchildren for the Orange County Register, which led to an initiative to improve their education. She has lived and worked in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica and spent a summer in Colombia.

In Puerto Rico, she covered the legislature and multiple hurricanes.

In Costa Rica, she covered five hostage situations, including the sieges on the Nicaraguan embassy and the Costa Rica Supreme Court.

In 2015, she was awarded the French-American Foundation Immigration Journalism Award.