Jo Giese

Jo Giese is an award-winning radio journalist, bestselling author of Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother, teacher, community activist, former TV reporter, and above all--an intrepid and enthusiastic hiker and world traveler As a special correspondent, she was part of a Peabody Award-winning team at Marketplace, the most popular business radio program in America. For those radio stories, Giese won an EMMA award for Exceptional Radio Story from the National Women's Political Caucus and a GRACIE Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. She was honored as a 2024 Local Hero by Oboz Footwear.

Giese has visited more than fifty countries. She lives in Southern California and Bozeman, Montana, with her husband, Ed Warren.