Chion Wolf

Chion Wolf is the host of Audacious with Chion Wolf on Connecticut Public, spotlighting the stories of people whose experiences, professions, or conditions defy convention or are often misunderstood.

Guided by deep curiosity and genuine compassion, the team behind Audacious creates space for the kinds of stories that rarely get told - and the kinds of questions we’re often afraid to ask. From those speaking publicly for the very first time to voices already known around the world, every guest is met with care, and every story is honored as both deeply personal and profoundly human.

She is the winner of a 2021 Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her episode, Going Flat, or Building New Breasts: Two Women’s Post-Mastectomy Stories.

Audacious won a second Gracie Award in 2022 for the episode, I Regret Becoming A Parent.

A third Gracie was awarded in 2024 for Best Host.

The Audacious team won a fourth Gracie in 2025 for the episode, Intersex advocacy and the fight for bodily autonomy with Pidgeon Pagonis.

They won the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2025 national John C. Ensslin Award for Podcast Excellence in the Conversational Podcast Episode category.

Chion is a recipient of The Advocate's Champions of Pride 2021 as an "unsung hero who is making inroads for LGBTQ+ people in their fields of work and in their communities every day despite the risks or challenges."

Since joining CT Public in 2007, Chion has worked across production and photojournalism, including a key role in the first ten years of The Colin McEnroe Show. Their collaborative opening sketches for the show were recognized by Ira Glass in his 2016 Public Radio Program Directors Conference keynote.

She is the host of Other People's Poems, which happens every first Friday at Hartford Flavor Company. People share a poem that someone else wrote. Those who have their poems memorized win a loofah.

Previously, she produced and hosted The Mouth-Off, a live storytelling event at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, and a live advice show at Sea Tea Improv's underground comedy theater called Asking for a Friend with Chion Wolf.

She is also the founder of Pedal to the Medal, a pre-Eversource Hartford Marathon bike ride that has raised over $16,000 for Hartford's non-profit educational bicycle store, BiCi Co.

Wolf is a founding member of the Hartford-based marching band, the Hartford Hot Several. After destroying 18 trash cans with too mighty a swing, she now plays a proper bass drum with sound-activated twinkly rainbow lights inside of it with pillow stuffing to make it look like a cloud in there. There is also a very loud cymbal attached, which she prefers to hit more often than the songs call for.

Chion is also a certified judge with the International Chili Society and is unapologetic about her love for onions and white chocolate, which makes her tremendously easy to shop for.

She is a proud homeowner in Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood, where she cares deeply and enthusiastically for her pollinator and veggie gardens, four chickens, tens of thousands of Russian honey bees, her cat, Whiskey, and her also-Russian dog, Gray.