Allison Aubrey is a correspondent for NPR News, where her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She’s also a contributor to the PBS NewsHour and is one of the hosts of NPR’s Life Kit.
Along with her NPR science desk colleagues, Aubrey is the winner of a 2019 Gracie Award. She is the recipient of a 2018 James Beard broadcast award for her coverage of ‘Food As Medicine.’ Aubrey is also a 2016 winner of a James Beard Award in the category of “Best TV Segment” for a PBS/NPR collaboration. The series of stories included an investigation of the link between pesticides and the decline of bees and other pollinators, and a two-part series on food waste. In 2013, Aubrey won a Gracie Award with her colleagues on The Salt, NPR’s food vertical. They also won a 2012 James Beard Award for best food blog. In 2009, Aubrey was awarded the American Society for Nutrition’s Media Award for her reporting on food and nutrition. She was honored with the 2006 National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism in radio and earned a 2005 Medical Evidence Fellowship by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Knight Foundation. In 2009-2010, she was a Kaiser Media Fellow.
Joining NPR in 2003 as a general assignment reporter, Aubrey spent five years covering environmental policy, as well as contributing to coverage of Washington, D.C., for NPR’s National Desk. She also hosted NPR’s Tiny Desk Kitchenvideo series.
Before coming to NPR, Aubrey was a reporter for the PBS NewsHour and a producer for C-SPAN’s Presidential election coverage.
Aubrey received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and a Master of Arts degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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