Sara Weisfeldt is a supervising producer based in the Miami bureau.

Throughout her tenure at CNN, Weisfeldt has covered a wide range of natural disasters, ranging from the 2018 volcano eruption in Hawaii, to wildfires, floods and hurricanes across the U.S. Her breaking news coverage also includes mass shootings, beginning with Columbine in 1999 to the El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019.

In addition to breaking news, Weisfeldt has worked on in-depth sexual abuse investigations, most notably exposing sexual assaults on vulnerable seniors in nursing homes and causing change with her reporting on Brigham Young University students who were punished by the school for breaking the “honor code” after reporting their rapes.

Weisfeldt is also deeply involved in CNN’s political coverage, which involves working with the Special Events team on presidential debates, primaries, caucuses, election nights and the presidential inauguration.

Weisfeldt began her career at CNN in 1992 and has since risen through the ranks: floor directing, running teleprompter, running scripts, recording feeds and edit department supervisor based in the network’s global headquarters in Atlanta. She then worked as the assignment editor for CNN’s western region in Los Angeles, which included 22 states. Directly following, Weisfeldt began working in the field as a producer, supervising producer and site supervisor.

In 2013 Weisfeldt opened CNN’s Denver bureau where she was responsible for running the bureau and for coverage of the region.

Weisfeldt is a graduate of Northwestern University. Follow her on Twitter at @SaraWNews.