Erika Mahoney is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured on NPR and in The Atlantic.

Currently, she is producing the podcast Senseless about moving forward after tragedy. Erika was news director at the NPR station in Monterey, California, when her dad was killed in a mass shooting.

Prior to that, she worked as a TV news reporter in New York and California. She got her start in journalism working at the community radio station in her hometown of Boulder. Erika lives in Colorado with her husband and two children.