Elaine Wu

Elaine was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, though she started her career in Hong Kong first working for MTV Asia, then as a bilingual radio DJ and producer by the time she was 19. After returning to the States, she went on to work in marketing and promotions for Cumulus Radio (formerly Susquehanna) before becoming and writer, producer and lifestyle correspondent for "Evening Magazine" on the CBS affiliate, KPIX in San Francisco. She received several Emmy Award nominations for her work on the show.

In 2004, she left broadcasting for the corporate world, working for financial software giant, Intuit, where she managed their external customer word-of-mouth programs and spearheaded their internal social media communications strategies. It was while she was working with various social media platforms that she decded to start her own blog about one of her personal passions: food. Aside from her food blog VirgoBlue, she's also a contributor for the websites Bay Area Bites, Scoutmob and BlogHer.

In 2009, Elaine became the marketing and communications manager for BlogHer, the largest online community of women bloggers.