From 2006 until 2015, Sikka was at NPR News, where she most recently served as Executive Editor, overseeing worldwide coverage. Prior to this role, she was the Executive Producer of the nation’s most listened-to radio news broadcast, “Morning Edition.” At NPR and earlier as a senior producer at ABC News Nightline, she won multiple Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont awards, as well as an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, and awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the South Asian Journalists Association for coverage of diverse topics including the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11th attacks, the Whitewater investigation, race and the 2008 campaign, and the Ebola epidemic.