Faith Salie THRILLED to return to Tech to host the Inventure Prize! She’s a six-time Emmy award-winning journalist on CBS Sunday Morning and a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Her Off-Broadway solo show, Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same title, was named one of Audible’s Best. Faith has been a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 6 million times and also included in two of The Moth’s New York Times bestsellers. Faith’s next podcast is Audible’s Envy Enlightened, which debuts in June 2025. She’s written for The New York Times, Time, USA Today, O, The Oprah Magazine, Slate, and McSweeney’s.

Faith grew up in Atlanta and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, aka the Georgia Tech of the North. She’s also the only Rhodes scholar who’s ever been beamed up on Star Trek. She’s loves raising kids in Manhattan who say “y’all.”