Communicator. Mom. Advocate.
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.
Senseless. A podcast about moving forward after the unthinkable.
The headlines end. Life doesn’t. Senseless follows the people left holding the pieces after mass shootings—families, first responders, artists, advocates—told with care by journalist Erika Mahoney, whose own father was killed in Boulder. These are stories of sorrow, love, and what comes next.
Erika is available for interviews and speaking on grief, resilience, and gun-violence prevention; ethical storytelling; and transforming trauma into public service.
Recent coverage includes CBS Los Angeles, Fox 5 DC, and Colorado Public Radio. She’s speaking at the Gun Violence Prevention Symposium in Denver on 9/11.
Media kit and high-res photos available upon request.