Kara Nelson is an award-winning journalist who serves as an Assignment Editor and Producer for Newsource Digital. Her reporting is focused on national U.S. news. Nelson joined CNN in 2023 as a News Associate for CNN Digital, and she is based out of the Atlanta bureau.

Before joining the network, Nelson worked with Kaiser Health News as an assistant producer. Nelson’s reporting includes stories surrounding race, historical events, women’s rights, and representation, especially pertaining to people of color and other marginalized communities.

In 2019, Nelson won an Emmy Award for her student production of “Home is Where Your Paintbrush Lives”: a video feature on a young artist – who, after learning that her house was due for demolition for the expansion of a highway, turned her home into an art exhibit with over 50 murals.

Nelson is a graduate of Georgia State University and earned her master’s degree from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

As part of her study abroad experience, Nelson studied health and medical journalism in Cuba. There she reported on health disparities in Havana, along with focusing on the history of Cuban culture.