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Sabrina Saleha is a Diné (Navajo) and Bangladeshi-American screenwriter and actress.
As fate would have it, her Navajo mom and Bangla dad found love in the club, and the rest is hertory. Sabrina is a fusion of both cultures, Indigenous to this land and the first-generation daughter of an immigrant dad. Gone are the days of panicking over which ethnicity checkbox to mark; now she's an artist with an infinite supply of Indian/NDN jokes.
She recently graduated with her Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the Institute of American Indian Arts in May 2023. Sabrina has been recognized with prestigious scholarships from Warner Bros. Discovery, American Indian Circle Fellow, and Navajo Nation. She's also a Native American Media TV Writer's Lab fellow with SkinsFest and an ImagineNATIVE's Screenwriting Feature Lab fellow sponsored by Netflix.
Her most recent acting credits include BARRY, SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE, PANHANDLE, ECHOES, and TRAP DOOR IN THE SUN. Her voiceover work will be featured in the upcoming PlayStation video game, THE FOGLANDS.
Before her career in Film/TV…
Sabrina earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from North Carolina State University before working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. During her time there, she founded the Native American Employee Resource Organization and collaborated with Native American organizations on college campuses to create a pipeline for Indigenous talent.
Driven by a thirst for adventure, she all her belongings and spent five years traveling to every National Park in the US and Canada, capturing her journey in the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Story of US: A PBS American Portrait story.
She has dedicated several years to volunteering at Comfort Zone Camp, a grief camp for children. In her volunteer work and the stories she writes, she pays tribute to the memory of her late younger brother.
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