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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U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) pressed a key federal official last week about how prediction markets are regulated during a House Agricultural Committee hearing. He said these markets function just like sports betting, but without the same regulations, and that hurts tribal communities. -
The Planet Money creators are on tour with a new book “Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces that Shape Your Life,” and host and reporter Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi talked with KUNM ahead of an event Monday night in Albuquerque. -
New York Times journalist Simon Romero grew up in New Mexico, but he has covered Latin America for nearly three decades. That included serving as bureau chief in Caracas, Venezuela. -
Flimmaker says efforts in New Mexico are a blueprint for conservation elsewhere. -
The rally was one of many around New Mexico and over 3,000 across the country on Saturday. -
There are 29 protests planned around New Mexico on Saturday, up from 24 in October 2025. -
Hours after the U.S. and Israel launched a major attack against Iran, protestors gathered Saturday afternoon near Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. -
On September 27, 2025, a large-scale musical composition unfurled over the course of a day across Albuquerque. On this episode, composer Raven Chacon relives the day and discusses the compositions that made up "Tiguex: Dawn to Dusk." -
Two UNM professors are working with the First Judicial District and an Española nonprofit to divert young people from the justice system. -
UNM graduate students compete every year to showcase their research in a compelling way in just three minutes at the LoboBITES competition.
