Amita Kelly
Amita Kelly is a Washington editor, where she works across beats and platforms to edit election, politics and policy news and features stories.
Previously, she was a digital editor on NPR's National and Washington Desks, where she coordinated and edited coverage for NPR.org as well as social media and audience engagement. She was also an editor and producer for NPR's newsmagazine program Tell Me More, where she covered health, politics, parenting and, once, how Korea celebrates St. Patrick's Day.
Kelly has also worked at Kaiser Health News and NBC News. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her M.A., and earned a B.A. in English from Wellesley College. She is a native of Southern California, where even Santa surfs.
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Twenty years ago, the brutal killing of a young gay man in Laramie, Wyo., drew national attention and led to an expansion of a federal hate-crimes law. -
There are five swift water rescue teams working the area, assisted by the Cajun Navy volunteer rescue group. -
Eastern coastal residents continue to experience widespread flooding, closed roads and large-scale evacuations. -
Catholics grappling with what the sex abuse scandal means for their own faith and trust in the church. NPR and our Pennsylvania member stations want to hear from you. -
"How [do] they want to represent themselves?" one expert asked. "Is it with Nazi-like symbolism or imagery or is it in polo shirts and khakis ... that could be more palatable to the American public?" -
Opposing the Trump administration's practice of separating immigrant families, Maryland brought back its troops from the U.S.-Mexico border and Massachusetts is canceling a planned deployment.
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The city has experienced nearly two weeks of protests since 22-year-old Clark was killed by two police officers. -
A friend of the suspect, Jeremiah Jensen, describes Conditt as shy, smart and thoughtful. "He was an intense person and could be hard to love but he was a person," he says.
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The effects of Florida's shooting are reaching beyond the state's borders into legislatures across the country. -
In a letter to customers Friday morning, the company said it has updated its return policy to give customers one year to return purchases, with a receipt. -
Assange drew international attention for leaking thousands of classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents in 2010, which infuriated American officials. -
Many federal workers wrote in and expressed dismay at Congress using them, especially the military, as "bargaining chips."
