Karen Yates is a certified somatic sex educator whose live Chicago-based sex talk show and podcast, Wild & Sublime, has been electrifying audiences since 2018 with its frank and straightforward (yet always entertaining) treatment of sex positivity. Created for people of all orientations, sexual preferences, gender expressions, and relationship styles, Wild & Sublime features Yates interviewing sexperts who offer audiences real information about sexuality that dismantles shame and expands sexual possibilities. Yates has also worked with couples as an intimacy coach and is a certified Tantra educator and a Biofield Tuning practitioner, a type of sound healing.

For two decades, Yates worked as an actor, director, and playwright, primarily in Chicago. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Arts Journal. She has been interviewed on multiple podcasts and cited in goop.com and the Chicago Reader. Her BA at the University of Iowa included participation in the Undergraduate Writers Workshop Fiction, and she has her MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.