Elise Hu spent nearly a decade at NPR, appearing regularly on All Things Considered and Morning Edition. She filed stories from more than a dozen countries as an international correspondent and opened NPR's first-ever Seoul bureau. She also created the Gracie-award winning video series Elise Tries. In 2009, Elise helped found The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit digital startup. She's a University of Missouri-Columbia alum, a Council on Foreign Relations member, and on the board of Grist. She has won the national Edward R. Murrow and duPont Columbia awards, among others.