About Eli
Eli Rallo is a 24 year old New York City based internet creator, podcast host and author. Originally born in New Jersey, Eli has always been a writer (since her beginnings as a theatre kid in Suburban New Jersey). She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 2020 (bachelor theatre arts, minors in playwriting, creative writing and political science) and her masters degree from Columbia University School of Journalism (MS’ 2021).
She went ‘viral’ on TikTok in the spring of 2020, and has since grown her TikTok account to over 750,000 followers, and her Instagram to over 100,000 followers.
She hosts a weekly podcast ‘Miss Congeniality’, which covers pop culture, mental health, lifestyle and culture. Her podcast just reached half a million downloads.
Eli gave a TedTalk in February 2021, and loves public speaking, specifically to college aged women around the country.
Her debut book, ‘I Didn’t Know I Needed This,’ with Harvest—a subsidiary of HarperCollins, is out now. She launched this release with a sold-out event, ‘I Didn’t Know I Needed This: The Live Show,’ at New York’s Sony Hall and is currently gearing up to take the show on the road with a 12-city nationwide tour.
When she isn’t writing or TikToking, she enjoys activities such as seeing live theatre, reading, eating Chipotle, doing pilates, or taking long, existential walks.
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar