Andrew Mambo
Andrew Mambo is a producer for NPR’s The Sunday Story podcast from Up First.
At NPR, Mambo has also worked on Invisibilia, The Last Cup and the Embedded series Tested. Before joining NPR, Mambo was a founding producer/reporter for ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcast. There he reported stories ranging from a boxer who rose to become a world title contender while incarcerated to the origin story of the immensely popular Madden video game, as well as produced the multi-part series Heavy Medals about how Martha and Bela Karolyi built the system that ushered in an era of American gymnastics dominance.
Mambo began his media career working at community radio stations in Montreal before moving to London where he worked as a reporter for the BBC Radio 1Xtra news team. After switching gears for several years doing humanitarian aid work in Sub-Saharan Africa, he returned to radio in 2012 with Radio Rookies at New York Public Radio, where he worked to help young people around New York City tell their unique stories in their own words. While working in radio he has taught radio courses at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism as well as at The City College of New York. Apart from radio Mambo has also co-produced The Gettysburg Story, a feature length documentary film for Maryland Public Television that broadcast nationally. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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