Saroja Coelho

Saroja Coelho is a Canadian journalist and radio personality, currently the weekend host of Mornings on CBC Music,^[1] the call-in show Just Asking on CBC Radio One,^[2] and the CBC Radio Overnight block.^{[citation needed]}

Originally from Toronto, Ontario, Coelho was a foreign correspondent, reporting from Asia and Eastern Europe for CBC, BBC, NPR, Deutsche Welle and National Geographic.^[3] In 2012, she became the host of Living Planet on Deutsche Welle, before returning to Canada to host Breakaway, the local afternoon program for CBC Radio One's Quebec Community Network in 2016.^[4] She returned to Toronto in 2018, where she was a regular guest host of Here and Now during Gill Deacon's health leave, and became host of Mornings after Raina Douris left the program in 2019.^[5]

Just Asking, a weekly call-in show on lifestyle topics such as health, careers and investment, debuted on CBC Radio One in February 2024 on Saturday afternoons.^[2] First introduced as a one-hour show, it was later expanded to two hours to align with the older call-in show, Cross Country Checkup, in the equivalent timeslot on Sundays.

Coelho studied biology and political science at the University of Toronto,^[6] and was a coordinator of Women Active, Vocal, Effective and Strong, a leadership program for young girls, in the early 2000s.^[7]