Elise Hu hosts the TED Talks Daily podcast, which features thought-provoking ideas on every subject imaginable every day of the week. She spent nearly a decade at NPR, appearing regularly on flagship shows such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition, filing stories from more than a dozen countries as an international correspondent and opening the organization’s Seoul bureau in 2015. Her experiences in Seoul inspired her debut nonfiction book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital.
Why you should listen
Elise Hu hosts the TED Talks Daily podcast, which features thought-provoking ideas on every subject imaginable every day of the week. She spent nearly a decade at NPR, appearing regularly on flagship shows such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition, filing stories from more than a dozen countries as an international correspondent and opening the organization’s Seoul bureau in 2015. Her experiences in Seoul inspired her debut nonfiction book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital.
Elise Hu’s TED Talks
Salome Agbaroji, Elise Hu, Samora Pinderhughes
Beyond the Talk: Salome Agbaroji and Samora Pinderhughes on the intersection of art and AI
45 minutes 24 secondsPosted Sep 2025Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Elise Hu
A songwriting battle with my AI clone
33 minutes 11 secondsPosted Feb 2026




















