Katie Simon

Katie Simon is the Supervising Editor for Embedded, which showcases premier enterprise documentary storytelling for NPR and the NPR Network.

Before arriving at Embedded, she was a founding producer of NPR's multi-platform jazz program, Jazz Night in America, and, prior to that, a founding editor at StoryCorps. She also co-created The Scarlet E: Unmasking America's Eviction Crisis (WNYC/On the Media), spent eight delightful months overseeing the TED Radio Hour in an interim capacity (NPR), freelanced for ESPN's 30 for 30 podcast series, and piloted the Well-Read Black Girl podcast (Pushkin Industries).

Simon has produced audio installations about housing instability for the National Building Museum and, through StoryCorps, contributed to exhibitions at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan. She's filed stories from the southernmost tip of Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and with inmate firefighters in eastern Wyoming. She got her start in audio as a reporter in Newark, NJ, and still proudly calls New Jersey her home.

Simon's work has been awarded a Columbia-DuPont silver baton, two George Foster Peabody awards, and multiple Emmy nominations. She holds degrees from Kenyon College and Columbia University's School of Journalism, and completed The Poynter Institute's Leadership Academy for Women in Media.