Juana Summers
Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. She has covered politics since 2010 for publications including Politico, CNN and The Associated Press. She got her start in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Mo., and also previously covered Congress for NPR.
She appears regularly on television and radio outlets to discuss national politics. In 2016, Summers was a fellow at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.
She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and is originally from Kansas City, Mo.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, N.J., about the protests taking place outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, which have grown violent in recent days.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson about his organization's Out of Bounds campaign that draws a connection between Black student athletes and voting rights.
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A ProPublica investigation by Robert Faturechi says White House adviser Peter Navarro asked the Pentagon to approve a loan to a rare-earth magnet company in which Donald Trump Jr. has a stake.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., about his concerns with the so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jack Schlossberg, Democratic candidate for New York's 12th Congressional District and the grandson of President John F. Kennedy.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap of the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap about their new album Fenian. -
NPR's Juana Summers talks with the runner Mary Cain about her book This Is Not About Running, which deals with the harassment and abuse she says she experienced as a young runner.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Christian Turner, the United Kingdom ambassador to the United States, about current tensions between the two countries and King Charles' state visit to D.C. this week.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Elisabeth Braw, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about shadow vessels, after the U.S. military's seizure of two Iranian-linked oil tankers.
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Nearly a year after launching an ambitious plan to rebuild the U.S.'s air traffic control infrastructure, leaders at the DOT gave an update, including details on a proposed AI-driven software system.
