Erika Mahoney is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has been featured on NPR and in The Atlantic.
She’s the creator/host of Senseless (Lemonada Media), a narrative podcast about what happens after mass shootings—how people grieve, heal, and keep going.
In 2021, Erika’s father was killed in the Boulder, CO grocery store shooting. Six months pregnant at the time, she left daily news and began the work of honoring her dad by telling the fuller human story behind the headlines. Today, she’s fully stepping into an advocacy role, fighting for a future without senseless gun violence.
Previously a news director at an NPR station in California, Erika brings rigor, empathy, and craft to every episode—interviews with survivors, families, and advocates; music and sound that carry the emotion; and reporting that leads to connection and action.
She speaks nationally about grief, resilience, and gun-violence prevention, and is currently based in Boulder with her family.
To learn more about Erika, please visit her website at https://www.erikamahoney.com.