Zoe Clark

Zoe Clark

Political Director, Michigan Radio

Zoe Clark is the Political Director for Michigan Radio, guiding coverage of the state Capitol, elections, and policy debates. Her passion for understanding and explaining politics led Michigan Radio to create the position in 2022 for the first time in the station’s history.

Clark also offers regular on-air political analysis and hosted the election-focused edition of Stateside on Fridays. She co-hosts It’s Just Politics, a weekly look at Michigan politics with Michigan Public Radio Network’s Senior Capitol Correspondent Rick Pluta. Clark regularly appears on WKAR’s Off the Record and offers political analysis on NPR, PBS, and CNN.

Clark is an award-winning journalist, including the prestigious Peabody, for overseeing the station’s first nationally distributed podcast, Believed. She previously was the station’s Program Director and is the founder and former Executive Producer of Stateside. She began at Michigan Radio by producing Jack Lessenberry’s daily interviews and essays and producing Michigan Radio’s Morning Edition.

Clark earned degrees in Communication Studies and Political Science from the University of Michigan.