Megan Kamerick
News DirectorMegan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.
Prior to radio, Megan spent many years in print and online journalism and she moved into television with New Mexico PBS in 2012 where she produced “Public Square” and “New Mexico in Focus.” Megan also produced two podcasts with NMPBS, New Mexico Women and the Vote and Growing Forward: Cannabis and New Mexico, which she co-hosts with Andy Lyman of New Mexico Political Report and which is in its third season. Megan has produced stories for National Public Radio, Latino USA, Capital & Main and Marketplace. She’s passionate about getting women’s voices into media and is the former president of the Journalism & Women Symposium. Her TED talk on women and media has more than 350,000 views. She’s the treasurer for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Rio Grande Chapter. In the spare time she manages to scrape together she goes hiking with her husband, seeks out cool cultural happenings, goes to movies and travels.
megankamerick (a) kunm.org
505-277-9980
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Despite criticisms by Republican leaders that the second No Kings protest was about hating America, many participants came to express their patriotism and support of the country. -
Margaret Randall is a poet, writer, translator, photographer, and activist whose archives are held at the University of New Mexico. She has authored over 200 books, and on this episode she talks about her two most recent: "Letters From the Edge: Outrider Conversations" and "More Letters From the Edge." -
This year’s festival takes place Monday October 13 and will include a resource fair dubbed Death is Not a Dirty Word with over 100 vendors sharing information on things like green burials, hospice, estate planning, grief care and caregiver resources. There will also be panels, including one on plant medicine and psychedelic therapy for grief and death anxiety. -
The Albuquerque Police Department is seeking an independent review of the hanging death last year of a Black man following a rally by community groups Monday night. -
A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown. -
New Mexico is officially clear of the measles outbreak that began February 14. That’s the word from the state’s Department of Health. -
On this month’s program we’ll hear from a local coordinator with Stand Up For Science and three University of New Mexico neuroscience researchers about their work and what they will discuss at a public event on August 23rd. -
A week after a 14-year-old was fatally shot in campus housing, University of New Mexico officials say they’re working to revamp policies to keep the community safer. -
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A shooting this morning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque has left one person dead and another with non-life threatening injuries. New Mexico State Police lifted a shelter-in-place order that began at 5:30 a.m. just before 4 p.m. KOAT reported the U.S. Marshals arrested the shooting suspect in Los Lunas.
