Elise Hu

Elise is a voice you might know from public radio. She spent nearly a decade at NPR, as a regular voice on flagship shows All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Most recently Elise worked as a host and correspondent exploring the future out of NPR West in Culver City. A wanderlusty journalist with experience reporting from more than a dozen countries, she opened NPR’s first-ever Seoul bureau in 2015 and spent several years covering both Koreas and Japan. The job involved a lot of trying wild new experiences, so she created and hosted an eponymous video series about it, Elise Tries, which won a Gracie Award in 2018. Before NPR, Elise helped found the nonprofit digital startup, The Texas Tribune, in 2009. She led its multimedia team and launched its still-running tentpole podcast. She’s an alum of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Journalism school, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the board of Grist. Her journalism work has won the national Edward R. Murrow and duPont Columbia awards, among others. Even though her company is called Reasonable Volume, Elise’s volume usually falls in the “loud” category.