Sara McCloskey-Nieves

Sara McCloskey-Nieves joined the public relations team as the VCU Health news editor in October 2022. She manages daily content for the VCU Health News Center, overseeing editorial standards for the public relations team and contributors. McCloskey-Nieves also provides editorial direction for digital marketing channels with a health news focus, including newsletters and social media.

Before joining the VCU Health team, McCloskey-Nieves spent several years at Virginia’s Home for Public Media (VPM), a local NPR and PBS affiliate, as the station’s first newscast editor and internship coordinator. She was also the Virginia capitol bureau reporter for Nexstar Media Group’s Virginia stations as well as a producer and multimedia journalist at Local 22 / Local 44 in Burlington, Vt. She was also a member of the Poynter Institute’s Leadership Academic for Women in Media in 2021.

McCloskey-Nieves graduated from Ithaca College in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, with a minor in politics and completed a master’s degree in homeland security and emergency preparedness from VCU's L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs in May 2025. She also has an Advanced Public Information Officer certification from the FEMA National Disaster & Emergency Management University.