She is a special correspondent and host for NPR. Previously, she hosted NPR's newsmagazine “All Things Considered,” public radio's longest-running national program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. Norris co-hosted NPR's 2008 Democratic presidential candidates' debate, covered both conventions and moderated a series of conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics. The series of stories that evolved from those discussions, "The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote," earned Norris a 2010 duPont-Columbia Award. Those discussions on race also led Norris to author her first book, "The Grace of Silence" about "hidden conversations on race" in America.