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Zoë Saunders

Senior Producer

SHORT BIO

Zoë Saunders is senior producer of Marketplace's narrative podcast, “This Is Uncomfortable.” She is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Zoë first dipped her toes into audio production as a college radio DJ at WPRB. After a slight detour through academic archaeology, she circled back to her radio roots and produced award-winning podcasts and nationally-syndicated radio programs for WNYC, PRI/PRX, and CNN, before finally joining Marketplace in 2022. Counter to her parents' belief, she has never actually worked for NPR.

When not on a Zoom call for work, Zoë can usually be found singing to her dog.

Latest Stories (9)

This is why you deserve a treat: Five lessons for happier spending

Sep 20, 2024
Plus: What we're doing with the last of our summer produce and "day in the life" TikToks about life at NPR
Courtesy Elizabeth Dunn/Simon & Schuster

This is how much gold Paralympians take home

Plus, financial educator Sahirenys Pierce defends her splurge and more in this week's This Is Uncomfortable Newsletter.
Andy Lyons/Getty Images

For Sarah Thankam Mathews, organizing is about people and potential

Jul 26, 2024
The “All This Could Be Different” author chatted with us about embarrassed millionaires, mutual aid and Milwaukee.
Courtesy Dondre Stuetley/Penguin Random House

Anxieties about food and parenting transcend class

Jun 28, 2024
Sociologist Priya Fielding-Singh cooked and ate with families to write “How the Other Half Eats”
Courtesy Priya Fielding-Singh

“Temporary” author Hilary Leichter on losing yourself to gigs

Jun 13, 2024
“You can never bring your true full self to a job because a job is not the world. It's this strange microcosm of the world.”
Images courtesy Coffee House Press and Sylvie Rosokoff

This is not you, it's me.

Nov 17, 2023
Plus: "This American Ex-Wife" author Lyz Lenz defends her splurge, and some of our recommendations for healing a broken heart.
Zoë and her friend at the wedding.
Courtesy Zoë Saunders.