Amy Walters is a radio journalist , not to be confused with Amy Walter ABC News' Political Director.

After graduating from Earlham College

Earlham College

Earlham College is a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 by Quakers and has approximately 1,200 students.The president is John David Dawson...

 with a Bachelor's degree in English, Walters joined NPR's Middle East Bureau in Jerusalem. In 2000 she joined the staff of Morning Edition

Morning Edition

Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It airs weekday mornings and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 05:00 to 09:00 ET, with feeds and updates as required until noon...

 in Washington, DC, but soon left the show to work on NPR's All Things Considered

All Things Considered

All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...

 where she contributed to NPR's award-winning coverage of September 11th.

In 2003 Walters moved to Los Angeles where she now works as a field producer for the network. She produced NPR's coverage of the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

's election, award-winning coverage of California's prison system, and the death of pop legend Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

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Walters has worked at NPR's Baghdad

Baghdad

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

 Bureau and produced much of NPR's post-Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

 coverage in New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

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Much of her work has been with NPR's Award winning Crime and Punishment Correspondent, Laura Sullivan

Laura Sullivan

Laura Sullivan is a correspondent and investigative reporter for National Public Radio. She has worked there since 2004. She covers crime, punishment and prisons for Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and other NPR programs.Sullivan's work specializes in shedding light on...

. Their series, The Sexual Abuse of Native American Women, was honored with the DART

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is a resource center and think tank for journalists who cover violence, conflict and tragedy around the world...

 Award for Excellence in coverage of Trauma, the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting and a 2009 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.

The Sullivan-Walters team continued their award winning streak in 2009. Their 3 part series on a crime and its punishment at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola Louisiana http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96030547 received The Peabody Award http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/event.php?id=59 and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Journalism http://www.rfkcenter.org/node/309.