Matthew Sedacca
Reporting fellow, Covid-19 recovery
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Matthew Sedacca is a Reporting Fellow at The Counter, focusing on the nation’s recovery efforts from the Covid-19 pandemic across the food industry. He previously worked at The New York Times and won a National Magazine Award for his writing on the histories of residential buildings for New York magazine.
![Three vaccine bottles with fast food chain signs within them and syringes on top with red background January 2022.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/matthew-vaccine-bottles-graphic-january-2022-neww.jpg)
![Florida, Orlando, Starbucks Coffee shop, mom with sons at cashier, all wearing face masks. January 2022](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/starbucks-union-buffalo-vote-january-2022-e1641931620876.jpg)
![Curly haired masked bartender fills beer. January 2022](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/masked-curly-haired-bartender-fills-beer-january-2022.jpg)
![Turkey cut up on different pieces of paper with two trucks going through and red Iowa transport map in background November 2021.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/matthew-thanksgiving-feature-image-november-2021.jpg)
![Workers and tourists are reflected in the window of a temporarily closed Starbucks on State Street in Boston on August 9, 2021.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/peoples-reflection-in-starbucks-window-unions-october-2021.jpg)
![Staff at Phoenix Coffee Company stand in front of the storefront wearing masks and socially distanced. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/phoenix-coffee-company.jpg)
![Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, founder of One Love Community Fridge, and Cynthia Edorh place donated food in the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene Mutual Aid group's refrigerator on March 02, 2021 in the Fort Greene neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fort-greene-community-fridge-october-2021-e1633710820191.jpg)