Sarah-Grace Mankarious is an Emmy Award-winning interactive journalist at CNN Digital where she creates digital storytelling experiences.

Her career at CNN has spanned more than 8 years where her expertise has helped evolve the network's interactive and visual storytelling online. Prior to joining CNN, she was a graphic designer and art director. Her background in branding and editorial design led her to interactive journalism.

Originally from London, Mankarious has lived and worked in Mexico City, New York City, Buenos Aires and a small village in Japan. Her experience of living in other countries strongly informs her design practice today. She encourages audiences to look at the world a little differently through stories about shared experiences in diverse cultures, and intriguing facts about our world.

Notable projects include the multi award-winning animated series 'Colorscope' that explores our perception of color which Mankarious conceived and produced and the Webby Award-winning interactive feature 'What was Leonardo da Vinci doing at your age?" In 2021, Mankarious won an Emmy Award for co-reporting, designing and producing the interactive feature 'How American police gear up to respond to protests'.

Mankarious has been invited to speak about interactive journalism on stages at creative festivals such as Offf and IAM in Barcelona, AIGA in Pittsburgh, Creative Works in Memphis and Design Friends in Luxembourg.

She holds a joint BSc in Philosophy and Psychology from Roehampton University and has recently graduated with distinction from Birkbeck, University of London with an MA in Journalism.

You can find her on Instagram @funinreno and Twitter @sgmankarious.