Adelina Lancianese

Adelina Lancianese is senior producer for the Embedded podcast, NPR's home for audio documentary storytelling, where she has produced series such as We Keep Us Safe, A Good Guy, and the Peabody-nominated Supermajority.

Formerly, she produced Love Commandos, which chronicled forbidden love in India, as part of her tenure as senior producer for the NPR show Rough Translation. Other stories she produced there transported listeners to a trucker's cab, a Ukrainian garden, a Swedish dance floor, and helped earn the show a 2022 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Travel Journalism.

Lancianese has also produced NPR shows like Weekend Edition, I'll Be Seeing You, Invisibilia, On Our Watch, and Louder Than A Riot, which won honorable mention at the ABA Silver Gavel Awards. 

Lancianese came to NPR as a 2017 Kroc Fellow. During the fellowship, she helped produce an investigation into black lung disease among coal miners, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award and was nominated for both a Peabody and an Emmy. 

She's a graduate of Georgetown University, born and raised in West Virginia.