Sasha Ingber hosts SpyCast, the International Spy Museum’s podcast on global intelligence, espionage, and covert action. 

 

She is also the founder of HUMINT, where she explores the complex world of intelligence through human stories. From Washington, D.C., New York, Ukraine, and Qatar, Sasha has reported on spies, analysts, armed forces, terrorists, dictators, hostages, and the raw emotions that drive them.

 

For 4.5 years, she was the national security correspondent for national TV network Scripps News, specializing in the U.S. intelligence community and covering defining moments of our time: The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the collapse of Afghanistan, the Jan. 6 riot, and the George Floyd protests. She also took people into secret places, including a Chinese police station hidden above a ramen shop in New York City, a covert Russian intelligence unit targeting Americans abroad, and the minds of U.S. intelligence officers facing mental health challenges. 

 

She was also a reporter at NPR, National Geographic, and Smithsonian, and contributed to such publications as The Washington Post Magazine and The Atlantic. A Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee, she has told stories on the ground in Bangladesh, Iraq, and Cuba. She has been a guest on PBS NewsHour and The History Channel, and her reporting has been picked up by media outlets that include CNN, MSNBC, Politico, Axios, Time, and Rolling Stone. 

 

Sasha holds a Master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University and has guest-lectured at Georgetown University, University of Michigan, and William & Mary. She has moderated events at the Kennedy Center and National Press Club. Before starting a career in journalism, she worked in the U.S. State Department, debunking disinformation after Russia illegally seized Crimea from Ukraine -- her entrypoint into the realm of national security.