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 previews Saturday's Heisman Trophy award ceremony, one of college football's sacred traditions, with sports and culture critic Tyler Tynes.
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Last week's earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a tsunami warning urging people across a huge swath of California and Oregon to evacuate. Why aren't tsunami warnings more precise?
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Calgary took fluoride out of its water supply in 2011, but it's reversing course. City council member Gian-Carlo Carra explains why he voted to remove fluoride and why he would vote differently today.
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Ben Witten found an unusual rock on an English beach when he was 6. It turned out to be an exceedingly rare hand ax made by Neanderthals, tens of thousands of years ago.
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Omar Alshogre spent time in Sednaya prison in Syria. He gives a real-life look at what life was like there, and what it was like to escape and live as a civilian.
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A group of women who've been walking their local mall together for decades share the ways their commitments to movement, and each other, have enriched their lives and health.
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Bill Belichick is one of the greatest coaches to ever live — he won six Super Bowls while in charge of the New England Patriots. Now, he's headed to the University of North Carolina.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be hosting the 2034 World Cup. The news has stirred backlash amongst critics who point to the country's questionable human rights record.
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DeEtte Sauer, 83, went from being a girl who wasn't allowed to participate in sports, to an elite swimmer as a senior. She talks with NPR's Juana Summers about what being active means to her.
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Older folks interested in lifting weights flock to a gym in Baltimore, where the trainer has special expertise in working with people in their 60s, 70s and 80s to build strength and independence.