Sachi Cunningham is an American filmmaker, surf photographer, journalist and Professor Emerita of Multimedia Journalism at San Francisco State University.
Cunningham is the director and producer of Big Wave Women (formerly SheChange), an upcoming documentary about female surfers. She is also a journalism professor at San Francisco State University.
She was a producer and director of photography for PBS FRONTLINE/World. She was also a video journalist for the Los Angeles Times.
Cunningham is an alumnus of Brown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Cunningham is a cancer survivor.