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. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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