Chion Wolf
Host / Producer, Audacious with Chion WolfChion Wolf is the host of Audacious with Chion Wolf on Connecticut Public, featuring conversations with people who have uncommon or misunderstood experiences, conditions, or professions.
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.
She won a second Gracie Award in 2022 for the episode, I Regret Becoming A Parent.
Her third Gracie was awarded in 2024 for Best Host.
She is also 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."
She is the host of Other People's Poems, which happens every first Friday at Hartford Flavor Company. People share one poem they love that someone other than them 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, a couple hundred Russian honey bees, her cat, Whiskey, and her also-Russian dog, Gray.
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On this episode of Audacious, 18 people talk about the smell that reminds them of childhood.
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Meet an extreme ironer, cheese roller, and shin kicking referee (also called a "stickler") on this weird sports episode of Audacious!
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On this episode of Audacious, come with us to Brooklyn to compete in The Punderdome! See if Chion has what it takes to go head-to-head with some of the best pun artists around.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man who was born colorblind but can now hear colors thanks to an antenna implanted into his skull. And a choreographer feels earthquakes via sensors in her feet.
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On this episode of Audacious meet Dr. Jenn Carson. When she was 9, she found out that her father and his second wife were serial killers. She grew up to become a mental health advocate.
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On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of Toby Dorr. She was on the run with John Manard for 12 days after she helped sneak him out of prison in a dog crate.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three people who have persistent genital arousal disorder, including one woman who has around 100 orgasms a day.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Zarna Garg. As a 40-something Indian stay-at-home mom, she started her comedy career just five years ago. Now she has her own comedy special on Amazon.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Zumrat Dawut and Tahir Izgil, two Uyghur refugees who fled to America to escape the genocide against their people in northwest China.
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As part of NautiWeek, Audacious brings you two people who broke world records underwater! One is for breath-holding, the other is for living underwater for 100 days.