Amy Walters

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Amy Walters is a producer for NPR based at NPR West in Los Angeles. After graduating from Earlham College 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 in Washington DC but soon left the show to work on NPR's All Things Considered 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's election, award-winning coverage of California's prison system, and the Michael Jackson trial.

Walters has worked at NPR's Baghdad Bureau and produced much of NPR's post-Katrina coverage in New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.