Galavanting Contributors
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Kim is based in Chicago, IL and some of her other writing on everything from travel to politics to parenting can be found in places like MarieClaire.com’s Travel Diaries, The Huffington Post, and Babble. She’s also co-founder of TBEX and the Travel Blog Exchange. Read Kim’s travel news articles >>
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Heather Rascona is Galavanting’s food editor. She is lives in Virginia with her husband Nick and adorable dog Roxie. She works as an attorney for Legal Services of Northern Virginia. Heather has lived abroad with her Italian family and learned to make wine and other delicious things. She also keeps a cooking blog called Diary of a Fanatic Foodie. |
Shanna Quinn is a Galavanting contributing editor and based in Chicago, IL. She likes lattes, going barefoot, when public transit is on time (not that it happens…ever) and of course traveling! Shanna would ultimately love to make a living traveling. |
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Lori Rice is a freelance health and travel writer, and a Galavanting travel news and reviews correspondent. You can follow her adventures as a US ex-pat living in Brazil at Blondie in Brazil or explore her thoughts as a nutritionist, wellness advocate and foodie traveler at Fake Food Free. |
Jamie Pearson is a writer, mother of two, and the founder of travelsavvymom. She has traveled extensively with and without her children. Her top three pieces of family travel advice are 1) Never leave home without peanut butter, 2) No child is too big for a stroller, and 3) Bring plenty of new toys—$50 for three pounds of plastic crap will seem like the deal of the century at 3am in a London hotel. |
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contributor Jenny developed a passion for travel backpacking around England in 1999. Subsequently she studied, worked, and traveled around Europe. However, it was a trip to Brazil in 2005 that changed her life path. Since then, she devoted her energy toward planning her escape from corporate life in Chicago. In March 2008, she moved to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she is learning Portuguese and seeking an experience yet to be defined. She writes about the journey at My life in Havaianas. |
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Katy is based in Washington, DC. Her passion is working in reproductive and sexual health and rights, and she has had academic writing published in the Women’s Policy Journal of Harvard and Reproductive Health Matters. Katy has caught the travel bug—and not the kind that makes you incontinent. She aspires to travel and explore as much as is humanly possible. Read Katy’s travel health articles >>_ |
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Leyla Giray is a development professional and journalist. She publishes the imaginative and offbeat website, Women on the Road for women who love to travel on their own. Leyla was born in Paris but left town (with her parents) when she was five weeks old. She hasn’t stopped traveling since. A few years ago, she quit her job for a one-way ticket to Cape Town. She returned home - which is Eastern France these days - after three years of solo backpacking across 45 countries. But who’s counting. |
Pamela Poole is a California girl. A writer, translator, and francophile entrepreneur, she has lived on both sides of the Prime Meridian, and from latitude 13°48’ to 50°35’. She now calls Paris home, and plans to stay there.
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Chrishette resides in Atlanta, and during the day works in the commercial real estate finance industry. Her first international trip was to Russia when she was 13 years old, and she’s been eager to explore the world ever since. During her college study abroad program based in London, Chrishette had the opportunity to visit most of Western Europe, but now has South America, Africa, and Asia on her travel list. Chrishette is the co-editor of the travel blog, Two JetSet Divas. The goal of the blog is to provide tips and inspiration to travelers, especially women, and demonstrate how attainable international travel can be for anyone. |
Ebonee is an event planner and non-profit fundraiser from St. Louis, who has a passion for travel. She has conquered 48 of the 50 United States (much of that done on family vacation), Canada, Mexico, the Western Caribbean, Italy and Central America. It is her goal to see the world, before her son gets to the age where he wants to tag along…and she has to pay for it! Ebonee is the co-editor of the travel blog, Two JetSet Divas. The blog was created to inspire travel for those on a budget. After all, it is possible to travel like a Rock Star and Pay Like a Peasant.
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E. Nina Rothe is a Galavanting contributor. She’s author of the forthcoming book Happily Unmarried Ever After and has a monthly column in the online magazine Chic Today. Born in Florence, Italy, Nina’s family moved to the US when she was a teenager. She comes from a family of writers and artists, all gypsies at heart. Interspersed with her trips around the world, she studied musical theater at New York University and enjoys many other exploits. |
Rosalind Cummings-Yeates Based in Chicago, Rosalind Cummings-Yeates specializes in African and Caribbean culture and travel. Her travel features have appeared in theChicago Sun Times, Hemispheres, Where, Pathfinder’s Travel and ebonyjet.com. As a travel essayist, she has been anthologized in Rough Guide To Women Travel, Go Girl! A Black Woman’s Guide To Travel and Adventure and the Not For Tourists Guide To Chicago.
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Diane Cu Diane was born in Da-Nang, Vietnam, and its culinary rich heritage has fueled her passion for all things global, delectable and exquisitely uncommon. An avid gardener, backpacker and outdoors lover, Diane continues to scour the world in search of local culture, history and cooking traditions. She also loves a good laugh, a great cocktail and her two dogs. |
Melanie, a Los Angeles writer and artist, writes Travels With Two — the travel blog for couples. She and her husband, Adam, can only sit still and work for so long before they have to get up and wander off somewhere in search of romance, adventure and wine. Once they get home, Melanie once again feels compelled to sit down and inspire others to wander off, as well. It’s a vicious circle.
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Shannon lives and works in Santa Monica, CA, but was born and raised in the Hawaiian islands. The experience of living 2500 miles from anything — surrounded by the ocean, in the lap of exquisite beauty, yet quarantined from any neighboring cultures or experiences — in large part fashioned her in to the curious traveler and writer she is today. |
Kenya dwells in the city of Milwaukee, where she’s always brewing something good. From freelance writing to massage therapy, she manages to tie in her passions while bringing home the bacon as the Marketing & Development Associate at a nonprofit.
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Jennifer Moore Stahlkrantz launched her magazine writing career with her signature series, “How We Give,” an intimate look at how individuals who work together can improve the lives of others. In her feature articles for American shelter magazines, she often takes readers inside fabulous homes and sits down for illuminating chats with celebs and ordinary folks, too. Jennifer is the deputy editor of Bedford Magazine in Bedford, N.Y. and travels frequently with her four children and Swedish husband.
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Leah Furman began her writing career shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois, when she co-wrote the first of her nearly 30 published books, “The Everything After College Book.” She is the former Managing Editor of M.A.R. Magazine and was the Editorial Director of Profile, an digital magazine about dating and relationships. Leah writes about travel and fine dining for publications like Jamrock, Elements, and Nikki Style. In the past year alone, Leah has swapped her New York City studio for a Paris flat, spent a few months exploring Australia, and took four weeks to go on a road trip through Eastern and Central Europe. |
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Robin Chaurasiya has been wandering the globe since her first trip to India at the age of three. Since then, she has worked, volunteered, and studied in countries throughout Europe, Central America, South Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East. In pursuit of her lifelong goal to make the world a just place for women, she is currently pursuing her MA in Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.
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Jackie Grom has been wandering the globe since the age of 19 after her first all-girls road trip across the United States. Since that time, she has lived in Spain, Australia, and Canada with bits of travel sprinkled throughout. She now finds herself residing in Chicago, IL and is enjoying the attributes of a more stationary life in her garden and kitchen, but can’t seem to help herself from cooking up more ways to get back on the road. When not playing, Jackie researches polar regions and looks for new opportunities to experience the marvels of the environment. |
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Willow Lama spent the past ten years living in Kathmandu Nepal, where she was married to a Sherpa/Tamang from the Langtang National Park. Immersed in the down to earth, daily life of Tibetan border peoples with their mysterious high altitude Himalayan Buddhist culture, Willow is happy to write about these subjects.
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Amy is a freelance writer and editor based in Chicago, IL. This Alabama nativestarted travelingat two months old. Inher first vacation photo, takenon the National Mall in Washington, DC, she’s somewhere inside thebundle of blanketsin her mother’s arms. |
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Raised in Texas, Stefanie caught the travel bug in college—flying to NYC on her own only two months into her freshman year. A year later, she studied abroad in London for three months and spent nearly every weekend traveling. This year, she is back in London working on a master’s degree in Shakespeare. |
Maggie Bunting lives in Albuquerque, NM. She has been a teacher, a marketing coordinator, and a freelancer, and is working on a way to travel for a living (aren’t we all?). Her travels include a solo backpacking trip halfway around the world, six months studying in Italy, and four years attending USC in downtown Los Angeles, where every day is an adventure. She lives with her boyfriend, 3 friends, and 2 cats, and is looking forward to heading out on the road again soon. |
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Nikki has never lived anywhere for longer than two years, but is about to destroy that record in rainy Portland, OR. She discovered solo road trips at the age of 18 and has been spontaneously disappearing ever since. In her now rooted world, she’s writing, playing guitar for a band and starting school to become a meteorologist. Nikki wants to find a stormchasing buddy someday, and does a blog called Give Me Space (To Rock).
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