She has reported from West Africa, Greenland, Afghanistan, and across the U.S. for National Public Radio and as a freelance journalist. Hersher was part of the NPR team that won a Peabody award for coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and produced a story from Liberia that won an Edward R. Murrow award for use of sound. She was a finalist for the 2017 Daniel Schorr prize, a 2017 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting fellow, and a 2015 NPR Above the Fray fellow.