This is my official bio!

Lauren Ober is a journalist primarily working as a podcast host and creator. Basically, she makes things for you to listen to while you’re folding your laundry.

She was most recently the host and executive producer (along with her partner, Hanna Rosin) of We Live Here Now from The Atlantic. The series follows Lauren and Hanna as they get to know their new D.C. neighbors — prominent members of the January 6 community. Financial Times wrote about the show that “the empathy, humanity and depth of their reporting reveals much about these febrile times.”

Before that, Lauren served as host and executive producer of The Loudest Girl In The World from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Media. It’s a show all about Lauren’s later-in-life autism diagnosis. Warning: there are some deluxe feelings in that show. Lulu Miller, host of Radiolab, called it “a masterpiece.”

Lauren is also the host and executive producer of Fine Gorilla Person from Topic Studios and Audible. The New Yorker wrote that the show is for people who “want to feel newly furious at all the ways our culture demands that monkeys dance for our enjoyment.”

Before that, she hosted and produced Spectacular Failures from APMStudios. The show was one of TIME magazine’s top 10 podcasts of 2019 and was named best business podcast at the 2020 New York Festivals Radio Awards. Ober also created, hosted and produced NPR’s The Big Listen, a nationally distributed radio broadcast about podcasts.

In a life before hosting, Ober was an award-winning audio reporter and has been heard on shows like This American Life, 99% Invisible, Reveal and Criminal, as well as all of NPR’s flagship programs. She is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop, Syracuse University and American University. A proud Pittsburgh native, Lauren currently lives in the 51st state with her silly hound, Davey.

If you are desperate to see Lauren’s C.V., you can click here (but honestly, why would you?).