Zamudio won a 2022 NPF Poverty Award.

María Inés Zamudio is an award-winning investigative reporter for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR station. Zamudio is part of the WBEZ’s race, class and communities team. Prior to joining WBEZ, she worked for American Public Media’s investigative team. She’s also worked as an investigative reporter for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Chicago Reporter magazine.In 2015, Zamudio and a team of reporters from NPR’s Latino USA received a Peabody National Award for their coverage of Central American migrants. Zamudio’s story was reported from the Mexico-Guatemala border documenting the dangers  Central American women face traveling through Mexico as they try to reach the United States.