Elise Hu is a multiple-award winning journalist, author and writer based in Los Angeles. A former correspondent for VICE News on HBO and a longtime NPR international correspondent, she has reported inside the communities most affected by political upheaval and disasters from more than a dozen countries around the world. She’s now hosting Raising Us, a parenting podcast about talking with young people about difficult topics such as democracy and climate change, part of a broadening area of specialization in line with themes of WINDSWEPT. In 2015, she opened NPR’s first-ever Seoul bureau, responsible for coverage of both Koreas and Japan. A University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism alum, Elise’s work has won the national Edward R. Murrow for video, duPont Columbia and Gracie awards, among others.

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ABOUT WINDSWEPT

After catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles upend their lives, four different teens from a cross-section of LA face extraordinary loss while navigating the ordinary challenges of adolescence: When your world burns down, how do you grow up?

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Film

Windswept

Program Affiliation

Firelight Fund

Cohort Year

2025

Website

elisehu.com

Instagram

@elisewho