Sydney Combs is a multimedia journalist with a background in anthropology. Her reporting focuses on tradition, history, and how people make sense of the world.

For the last several years she was a photo editor, digital producer, and writer at National Geographic. Previously, she worked at The Washington Post as a copy aide and at The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting as a reporting fellow and production intern. Currently, she is partaking in a fellowship with the Henry Luce Foundation.

She is also a NeXt Doc fellow with Youth FX, a program supporting emerging documentary filmmakers.