Adriana Gallardo is an editor with NPR’s Morning Edition, the most listened to news radio program in the country. Books and author interviews are her focus but she also edits news pieces across beats for the show.

Previous to joining Morning Edition, she spent over seven years at ProPublica where she worked on sweeping investigative projects. Her community-sourced reporting contributed to numerous awards including a Peabody, an Ellie and a Pulitzer Prize. More from her investigative work can be found here. 

Prior to ProPublica, Adriana oversaw a national reporting series at 15 public media stations and traveled the country with the StoryCorps mobile booth.

She is an Ochberg fellow with Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and for several years was a professor in the bilingual program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. 

Adriana is also an essayist represented by Aemelia Phillips and David Patterson at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.  Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult and in Daughters of Latin America, a 2023 anthology available in english and Spanish. 

She was born in central Mexico and grew up in a family of janitors working in the suburbs of Chicago. More on that here. 

photo: Aaron J. Arreguin