Emily Brass is host of the new CBC podcast Type Taboo: Diary of a New Diabetic, which follows her journey as she learns to cope with her recent diagnosis. In a series of audio diaries, Emily reveals her deepest feelings around type 2 diabetes, including the guilt and shame that comes with it. She meets diabetics aged 17 to 76 who offer tips on dealing with type 2, while helping Emily smash the hurtful stereotypes around the disease. 

Emily is a radio news anchor and reporter at CBC Manitoba. Before that, she worked as a national and local journalist for CBC in Montreal, Victoria and St. John's. Emily also worked for CBC National News in Toronto and London, U.K. 

Emily graduated from the journalism program at Concordia University in 2012, where she was awarded the Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship, the Gordon Fisher Prize for Most Outstanding Journalism Graduate, the Science Writers & Communicators of Canada Emerging Journalist Award and the Don McGillivray Prize in Explanatory Journalism.

Emily is also a former musician, who toured extensively across the United States as singer and saxophonist of The Emily Brass Band and Foundation Stone. Her first solo album, Open Door, was released in 2007, while Foundation Stones debut album, The World We Live In, was released in 2003.