Member + Alum Directory
Alma Lopez
Email: alma@almaexplores.com
Business: Alma Explores | http://almaexplores.com
Alma is a world traveler who started exploring as a small child while living in a motorhome where the Pacific Ocean was her backyard. A native of Southern California, Alma has traveled to over thirty countries all while managing diabetes and a successful business connecting brands to causes.
Now, she is bringing her travel expertise to curate experiences for the curious explorers looking for a guiding hand. Alma is most passionate about empowering women of color (and of size) to face their fears and explore the world.
A first-generation Mexican-American, Alma has explored all of Mexico, has hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and loves Japan. Alma wants to disrupt notions of who gets to see the world and what a travel influencer looks like. Travel is for everybody and every body and Alma wants to bring you along for the journey.
What's Your Superpower?: Building travel itineraries and building relationships with people.
Social Media Handles: @almaexplores
Anna Kim
Email: hello@mytravelanthropy.com
Business: Anna Kim | http://www.mytravelanthropy.com
Anna Kim is a travel and philanthropy influencer & sponsorship coach.
She teaches nonprofits strategies for raising 7-Figure and through her
10+ years of experience as a fundraiser, she also helps social media
influencers land brand sponsorships that align with their values and
authentic selves.
Her travel and philanthropy blog, My Travelanthropy enables her to
combine her passion for travel with her dedication to philanthropy.
What's Your Superpower?: Influencer Brand Sponsorship
Social Media Handles: IG @mytravelanthropy
Aubrie Canfield
Email: aubrie@actualityabroad.org
Business: Actuality Abroad | http://actualityabroad.org
Aubrie is a global traveler, media producer and educational entrepreneur. In 2010 she founded Actuality Media, an educational travel organization for emerging storytellers, which produced over 100 short documentary films about changemakers around the world. This organization recently relaunched as Actuality Abroad in order to serve a broader community of travelers and teach them how to travel to learn. She occasionally moonlights as an advertising producer, helping luxury brands create content to sell products that nobody needs.
Aubrie is based in Central Florida and lives with her husband, three children and parents in the house she grew up in. When procrastinating her real work, she has invested in her local community by creating a homeschool cooperative, multi-family camping trips, nature play gatherings and a working mom personal development circle.
She worldschools her children and takes no shit about it. Aubrie was homeschooled as a kid and she turned out awesome.
What's Your Superpower?: I create THE BEST plans.
Jamie Metzgar
Email: jamiemetzgar@gmail.com
Business: Widow Wellness Coaching | http://widowwellnesscoaching.com
Native New Yorker now based in California. Former academic, professional wineau, and now a grief coach. In my down time, I write, travel , collect vintage clothes, and sing songs to my less-than-appreciative dog Fiona.
What's Your Superpower?: Reinvention, figuring things out, and (almost) always finding the funny.
Social Media Handles: IG: @jelizani, @widowwellnesscoaching, FB: @widowwellnesscoaching, @thedromomaniac
NIKKI PADILLA RIVERA
Email: nikkiblp@gmail.com
Business: Trip Kinetics | Guide Week | http://tripkinetics.com
After 10 years working as a tour guide in NYC, I had the opportunity to create the Guide Program at Intrepid Travel's day tour division working with over 1,500 free-lance tour guides in over 160 cities around the world.
Currently, I help companies keep brand and quality consistency across their tours as they scale and advocate for tour guides in the larger industry through programs like Guide Week. You can also find me hosting the monthly Tourpreneur series: The Tour Operator Star-Up.
What's Your Superpower?: Getting people excited about something.
Social Media Handle: @nikkiblp
Taina Benitez
Email: taina@teachwithlove.com
Business: Teach With Love, LLC | http://www.teachwithlove.com
Hi, I'm Taina Benitez. I'm an educator + Systems strategist. I'm the founder of Teach With Love, a "for purpose" teacher travel community that empowers and connects heart-centered educators, around the globe, for the LOVE of education.
A former Instructional Coach, I've worked with Ministers of Education, Visionary Edu Leaders, UN Representatives. I've spoken at over 20+ conferences giving workshops that have been featured in many media outlets.
What's Your Superpower?: Making people feel seen and heard
Social Media Handles: @teachwithlovehq @taina.benitez