Speaker Profile

Ivy Le is a Vietnamese American comedian, writer, and actress based in Austin, Texas. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed Spotify Studios podcast FOGO: Fear of Going Outside, a nature show by the most reluctant host ever. FOGO is featured on Delta flights and recommended by The Guardian, CBC, Oprah and, inexplicably, Outside Magazine. Ivy was selected to be one of the 10 out of 18,000 applicants to go through Spotify’s first SoundUp podcast accelerator for women of color. She hosts the only queer comedy mic in Austin, co-produces Austin Sketch Fest, and performs at comedy festivals all over the country. She speaks Spanish, German, Vietnamese, and English, and is a mom of two rad kids. She is  widely published as a reporter, a poet, and advocate on immigration and civil rights issues, but currently, she is writing a script about a ninja who decides to level up her life by going to coding camp and an essay collection: Elder Bisexual.