Amara Evering
WLRN InternAmara Evering is a summer 2026 intern at WLRN. She was born in Washington, D.C., a city where news, politics and protests happen all at once.
This informed her work at the radio station WPFW-FM. There, she served as a journalist and host on the morning show, "Monday Morning QB." In 2021, she was awarded the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship to write and produce the original radio series “For Ama”. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Miami. Her poetry and prose have been published in The Contemporary, Conceit Magazine, and the Survivor Anthology. Much of her writing is informed by her Gullah-Geechee and Jamaican heritage.
When she is not writing or reporting, she is taking dance classes in Little Haiti, going to art museums and reading magical realism.
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Ten students at Miami Central traveled abroad this summer for an exchange program in Zimbabwe. -
Miami officials announced a new Zero Waste Master Plan they hope will ease the county’s on-going trash crisis. -
For over two decades, the Overtown Youth Center has served as a needed safe haven for students in the historic neighborhood — providing families with academic, financial, and health services. It's now expanding to south Broward County in partnership with Broward schools. -
Field researchers at the Coral Restoration Lab rushed from the ocean, carrying plastic crates filled with elkhorn corals. They join a wave of rescue missions on Florida’s coast that are removing corals from the sea, in hopes that they can give this vital form of marine life a fighting chance this blistering summer. -
Over the weekend, the city of Miramar hosted its first ever Goombay festival, bringing the celebration of the Bahama’s rich history and heritage to the city for the first time. -
The now-retired Judge Steven Leifman said he envisioned a place that could divert people away from the ninth floor of a detention center into a facility where they would receive individualized mental health treatment. -
With a measuring tape and waterproof notepad in hand, genealogist Shellie Baxter swims around a shipwreck embedded into the ocean’s floor in the Florida Keys. The water is warmer than the San Diego shores she’s used to, but this is still her most challenging dive yet – she is learning how to document slave shipwrecks. -
Divers with a global nonprofit network of Black ocean scientists and marine enthusiasts, joined a University of Miami's program to plant nursery-grown corals along the Florida Reef Tract as it experiences a prolonged heat wave. But the work is also about Black representation in marine science. -
At the Global Empowerment Mission warehouse, hundreds of volunteers hurried past each other to pack emergency supplies for families affected by the powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela earlier this week. “We need more hands," said one volunteer. -
Portugal faces off against an undefeated Colombia team on Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium for one of the World Cup's most anticipated matches. For Portugal fans in Miami, the stakes feel especially high: this is the last World Cup for renowned soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo. -
Dozens of people came to honor the estimated 2 million people who died at sea during the Middle Passage — the brutal forced voyages that carried over 10 million African captives across the Atlantic. -
In Opa-locka, community members waited in the pews of New Generation Missionary Baptist Church – not for a regularly scheduled service, but for an emergency meeting about congressional redistricting.
