Alicia Montgomery is the executive producer of podcasts at Slate.com. Prior to joining Slate, Montgomery served in a series of leadership roles in public radio, including as a senior supervising producer at Morning Edition, the chief of the Code Switch team, and lead editor for Tell Me More with Michel Martin. While at NPR, Montgomery helped lead efforts to diversify the staff and the voices featured on air.

She has been recognized with awards from the National Association of Black Journalists for radio editing, and edited a digital story that earned the Native American Journalist Association award for Best Editorial. She spent two years reporting for Salon.com, covering the 2000 presidential race and its aftermath. There, Montgomery created Trail Mix, one of the first daily political blogs. She has been published in The New York Times Magazine and the NAACP periodical The Crisis.