Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of “Embodied,” a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of “The State of Things,” North Carolina Public Radio’s flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.