Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us. Over the last decade, Snyder has been an outspoken journalist on issues of domestic violence…

Tim Hannigan is a travel and history writer from Cornwall in the far west of the UK. His first book, Murder in the Hindu Kush (2011), about the ill-fated Victorian explorer George Hayward, was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. His second book, Raffles and the British Invasion of Java (2012), won…

Mark Adams is the author of bestselling books Turn Right at Machu Picchu, which Men’s Journal selected as one of the “Fifty Greatest Adventure Books of All Time,” Tip of the Iceberg and Meet Me in Atlantis. His acclaimed history Mr. America was named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post. His work appears in many national publications, including GQ, Rolling Stone, Outside and the New…

Author of fifty-plus travel guides and many articles, Carolyn McCarthy seeks out original stories, explores environmental issues, and works to create meaningful connections with local cultures. Specialized in remote travel, she has explored the Amazon Basin via dugout canoe and solo hiked Patagonia to write Lonely Planet’s Trekking in the Patagonian Andes. Before that, she…

Camille T. Dungy was named a Guggenheim fellow in 2019. She is the author the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado…

Rory Nugent is a writer and an explorer. His work examines the deep shadows cast by traditions gone missing, or about to go missing. His findings have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, and in his three books: Down at the Docks; Drums Along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur;…

Lebawit Lily Girma is an award-winning writer and photographer who ditched her legal career for the road in 2008. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Cote d’Ivoire, she’s a serial expat who studied on three continents and speaks four languages. Lily’s work, focusing on all things culture and sustainable travel in the Caribbean, has been…

Shafik Meghji is an award-winning travel writer and journalist based in South London. A Latin America and Asia specialist, he has co-authored more than 35 guidebooks, including Rough Guides to Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, India, Laos, and Mexico. He writes for print and digital publications around the world, including BBC Travel, the Guardian and Time…

Oneika Raymond is a Travel Channel host and on-air travel expert for NBC New York and CTV Canada.  A bona fide travel junkie, her adventures have taken her to over 110 countries on 6 continents. As the author of the award-winning travel blog “Oneika the Traveller”, Oneika is dedicated to inspiring people of color to see…

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, historian and traveler. Named by Newsweek as “one of the twelve finest travel writers of the past hundred years,” Tim, according to the New York Times, “seems incapable of writing a dull sentence, and in him the scholar, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvelous speed.” Born in…

Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer, motivational speaker and philanthropist. He used to be a broker in the city of London, where he felt uninspired and chronically depressed. He gave it all up for a life on the road. This radical life change was inspired by the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Leon has visited more…