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 a graduate of the Stony Brook University Podcast Incubator Program, and holds a BA from Drew University and a masters degree from the University of Oxford.

Maria is the founder and executive producer of the boutique podcast production and strategic marketing company, Pentelic Productions, and the host and executive producer of the podcast, Our Pandora’s Box.