Karen Zamora
Karen Zamora is a Mexican-American producer for NPR’s flagship afternoon news magazine program, All Things Considered, where she first interned in 2013.
Since rejoining the production team in 2021, Zamora has produced on-the-ground breaking news coverage of the 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire on the Hawaiian Island of Maui.
Zamora previously worked at Minnesota Public Radio, where she produced hundreds of live, hour-long call-in shows on topics ranging from pandemic life to breaking news. At MPR, Zamora was part of a team that won a Public Media Journalists Association award for their coverage of January 6th.
She also worked for NPR member stations KAWC in Yuma, Arizona, and KUT in Austin, Texas, and as a public safety reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Zamora grew up along the Southwest border between the Imperial Valley, San Diego and El Paso, and earned her degree in journalism from Texas State University.
During her free time, she can be found reading romance novels and collecting souvenir fridge magnets from her travels. She remains convinced that one day, she'll finally learn how to ride a bike.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice about the relevance of the United Nations in 2026.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president, at the UN General Assembly.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott about President Trump's speech to the United Nations and America's place in the world.
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The International Rescue Committee warned that its goals of ending poverty, hunger, disease are failing. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the IRC's president about how to reverse course.
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What were the broken promises of the 1979 Iranian Revolution? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Yeganeh Torbati about the new book she co-authored, Stolen Revolution.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Martha Gimbel, executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, about living in a war economy.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Belle Burden about her memoir Strangers, and the powerful response the book is having.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sweden's chief of defense, Gen. Michael Claesson, about NATO, the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Europe's relationship with the United States.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the war in Iran.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Helena Bottemiller Evich, founder and editor in chief of Food Fix, about tensions between the MAHA movement and President Trump over glyphosate.