Maria Eliades is an award-winning podcast host and producer, writer, and strategic communications professional who lives in New York. Maria’s interests include politics, culture, art, literature, travel, and food in Turkey, Greece, and the United States.

Her portfolio includes podcast production and hosting for the U.S. Department of State, digital marketing for non-profits and companies like Turkish Airlines, and clips from the Ploughshares blog, The Times Literary Supplement, PRI’s The World, EurasiaNet, and Time Out Istanbul. She is currently a Stony Brook University Podcast Incubator Fellow in New York and an audio engineer and social media specialist for New York’s bilingual Greek-English public radio station, Cosmos FM.