Ari Shapiro is an award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered and of NPR’s daily afternoon news podcast Consider This. His debut memoir, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening, was an instant New York Times bestseller. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University. His reporting experience includes covering wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel as well as reporting from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One. As a live performer, he often sings with the band Pink Martini. He has also created two original solo shows and cocreated the stage show Och and Oy! A Considered Cabaret with Broadway star Alan Cumming.