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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Loud Sound Studios is home to two of Rwanda's up-and-coming hip-hop acts: Pro-Zed and Kenny K-Shot.
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It's been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide. In some places today, survivors live side-by-side with perpetrators in so-called reconciliation villages.
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The Nkamira Transit Center is home to thousands of refugees who fled violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Emily Nagoski is a sex educator and author of a bestseller on enhancing your sex life. The book did so well that it got in the way of her own.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with country singer Brittney Spencer, originally from Baltimore, about her debut album called 'My Stupid Life.'
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Julie K. Brown's reporting for the Miami Herald in 2017 and 2018 led to more charges for Epstein and identified nearly 80 of his victims.
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NPR's Juana Summers revisits the year that was for Beyoncé and Swift, and talks to Miami University of Ohio Professor Tammy L. Kernodle about the tendency to pit successful women against each other.
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WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani says the old advice around losing weight through determination and resilience and willpower was wrong: "The truth is that this is a chronic condition."
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with music critic Ann Powers about NPR's interactive "Best Songs of 2023" online tool.
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John Cale, a legend of avant-garde music, is out with a new, highly-collaborative album at the age of 80.