wanderful resident experts.
Wanderful Resident Experts are award-winning and inspiring coaches and instructors who provide guidance and support in our online member community.
Catch them at virtual member events, in the member portal, and even at some in-person events like WITS and chapter meetups to help you build and grow your skills as travelers and travel creatives.
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Abbie Synan is a freelance writer and travel blogger who is passionate about seeing the world as sustainably as possible. She thrives on the art of storytelling while amplifying other’s voices and continually questioning how we move through this world. She firmly believes that there is always a way to have that daring adventure and be a better traveler at the same time. Find her online:
Abbie Synan
Sustainable Travel
Amanda Walkins is a freelance digital content strategist and travel writer. Since 2015, she has been helping small businesses and entrepreneurs in the travel industry to create and implement a more effective content strategy. She is also a serial expat, having lived in 7 countries so far, so she has certainly honed her adaptability and flexibility skills. Find her online:
Amanda Walkins
Blogging & Content Strategy
Brooke Roberts (she/her) has over 20 years of professional experience in the international education and youth travel industries. She's the founder of Inside Study Abroad, the premiere career development and training platform for aspiring global educators. Additionally, she’s co-founder/creator of The Study Abroad Journal, a #1 new release on Amazon, and Director of International Education at Johnson CC. Formerly, she served as Senior Vice President of GoAbroad.com, Director of Operations & Advising for Global Educators/CISabroad, and founding director of global learning at the University of South Dakota. When not engrossed in her work in international education and meaningful travel, you can find her hosting Brazenist, a podcast/youtube channel (https://brazenist.com) where she’s helping the next generation of global leaders become brazen careerists, audacious entrepreneurs, and badass adventurers. Brooke is a TEDx and keynote speaker, digital nomad, and avid traveler currently based in Kansas City. To date, she’s visited 48 US states, 54 countries, and six continents. Find her online:
Brooke Roberts
Business & Career Growth
Jamie Lieberman, owner and founder of Hashtag Legal has been a practicing lawyer for 16 years. As an experienced entrepreneur, Jamie understands the unique needs of business owners at different stages in their organization’s growth. Today, she partners with clients across verticals including influencer marketing, creative services and e-commerce. She has a deep commitment to making legal accessible and regularly speaks about legal matters, the art of negotiation and entrepreneurial topics at leading industry events such as Alt Summit, Podcast Movement, and FinCon and as an expert source for media like Digiday and Forbes. Find her online:
Jamie Lieberman
Legal Strategy & Brand Partnerships
Jen Ruiz is a lawyer turned full-time travel blogger and author. She is a 5-time #1 Amazon bestseller and 2-time Readers' Favorite Award winner. Jen is a 3-time TEDx speaker and has been featured by The Washington Post, Forbes, and ABC News. Find her online:
Jen Ruiz
Travel Deals
Justine Abigail Yu (she/her) is a communications and marketing strategist who has worked with organizations operating in North America, Central America, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her expertise lies in growing enterprises from the ground up through strategic digital marketing, compelling storytelling, and genuine community engagement through a lens of anti-oppression. She is the Marketing Director at Wanderful, as well as the Senior Advisor for RISE Travel Institute – a non-profit organization that promotes responsible, sustainable, and ethical travel through education. Justine is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Living Hyphen, an emerging magazine that explores the experiences of living in between cultures. Find her online:
Justine Abigail Yu
Digital Marketing
Karisma Shackelford has been named a changemaker by Business Insider and featured in Forbes, US Reporter, Los Angeles Sentinel, Travel Noire, and more. With a vision almost as grand as the world we live in, Karisma is committed to inspiring today’s generations to live out their abundant and limitless lives with purpose and while on that journey to unite as the human race and live in color through her company Color Me World, a lifestyle, travel, and empowerment community. Find her online:
Karisma Shackelford
Income Creation & Strategy
Pam Holt has been a real estate broker and attorney for over three decades. She is an avid design enthusiast and a fierce supporter of womxn-owned businesses. Look even closer and you’ll find that she travels the world with her daughters, while guests pay the tab for their adventures. Pam is passionate about sharing her amazing lifestyle and helping the Wanderful sisterhood earn supplemental income so they can travel the world! Find her online:
Pam Holt
Short Term Rentals
Lisette Austin, aka Jet Set Lisette, is a travel podcaster and miles and points expert. She hosts the award-winning Globetrotter Lounge Podcast, interviewing women who have found creative ways to travel more. Lisette has been teaching workshops on earning miles and points since 2013 and created the online course Jet Set 101: Becoming a Travel Hacker. She has saved over 110K in travel costs, and always has over a million miles and points at her disposal. She is currently working on a new podcast project about DNA travel. Follow along via her monthly audio newsletter (travelingmyroots.com), Instagram (instagram.com/jetsetlisette), and/or Twitter (twitter.com/travelmyroots).
Lisette Austin
Miles & Points
Lottie Reeves is an advocate for mental health and wellbeing, soulful alignment, and imperfection. Lottie cheerleads, motivates, and supports “Big Dreamers” using her superpower to enable them to live life to the beat of their own drum. Find her online:
Lottie Reeves
Goals & Dreams Accountability
"Travel Blogger by Day, Physician by Night." Dr. Nadeen White has been practicing medicine for over 20 years and is also the creator & editor of the award-winning travel blog The Sophisticated Life that covers travel, food & wine. Find her online:
Dr. Nadeen White
Health
Natasha Amar is a freelance writer, content creator, and travel blogger behind TheBohoChica.com. She works with destinations from around the world to tell stories of adventure travel, food & culture. Her writing and photography have appeared in Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, National Geographic UK, Whetstone Magazine, SilverKris, Departures, Forbes Travel Guide, Waldorf Astoria Magazine, and more. As a third-culture kid, Natasha found her sense of purpose in the world through solo travel, & encourages all women to try it. Find her online:
Natasha Amar
Solo Travel Writing
Phylecia Jones is a two-time TEDx speaker, former national TV financial contributor for Daily Blast Live, women in STEM advocate, co-host of the Humans Exhaust Me podcast, and Founder of iFind You Close helping hundreds research and leverage public speaking to market their business or travel the world. Find her online:
Phylecia Jones
Travel Entrepreneurship
Sophia Hyder Hock is the Founder and CEO of Papilia, a company committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion practices for destinations, travel organizations, travel media outlets, and content creators. As an international yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor and yoga life coach, Sophia incorporates wellness ideologies into all her professional projects as a holistic way to inspire people to be their best selves through life’s many challenges. Her mindfulness sessions integrate emotional trauma and healing modalities and have inspired people to find the clarity and confidence to pursue their wildest dreams. Learn about Sophia and her wellness services, follow her journey on Instagram, and sign up for her 14-day virtual self-care retreat:
Papilia: papilia.co
Learn about Sophia and her wellness services: sophiahyder.com
Follow her journey on Instagram: instagram.com/sophia_hyder
Sign up for her 14-day virtual self-care retreat: sophia-hyder-hock-s-school.teachable.com/p/virtual-self-care-retreat2
Sophia Hyder Hock
Cultural Communications & Wellness
Yulia Denisyuk
Travel Journalism
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