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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Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was on his way to a game when he was pulled over. The encounter has revived a conversation about the interactions between Black drivers and police.
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A Georgia 14-year-old has been charged with four counts of murder after a fatal shooting at his high school. Last year, authorities interviewed him over online threats to commit a shooting.
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The Biden Administration announced a new rule that will require private health insurers to cover mental health and addiction services like physical conditions.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson about her new book, Lovely One, and the lessons she learned from family.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson about her new book, Lovely One, which traces her journey to the high court.
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In a new interview with NPR, Ketanji Brown Jackson talks about ethics in the Supreme Court, as well as stories about family, marriage and parenthood. -
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Ezra producer Alex Plank and screenwriter Tony Spiridakis -- who said the story comes from his own life with his son -- about portraying autistic people in their film.
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Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously upholds the decision to ban social media platform X nationwide.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Hamid Jafari, director of Polio Eradication for the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region, about the effort to administer some 600,000 vaccines in Gaza.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Steven Furr of the American Academy of Family Physicians about childhood vaccination rates, as measles cases continue to climb around the country.
