How Evita Robinson Created a Community for Travelers of Color

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When Evita Robinson chatted with Traveler contributor, Diana Hubbell, earlier this year, she made one thing clear: The travel industry needs to work a lot harder when it comes to serving travelers of color. It was that lack of inclusive representation that propelled her to start her company, Nomadness Travel Tribe in 2011, an idea she had while working as an English teacher in the suburbs of Niigata, Japan. In this week’s episode, we sit down with Robinson to find out just how she built a 22,000-member community of travelers—and expanded into group trips around the world, initiatives like the Nomadness Project, a web series co-created with Insecure’s Issa Rae, and Audacity Fest, an annual travel conference for millennials of color.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condi Nass Traveler.
0:07.4	I'm Lalei Aricoglu, and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.
0:12.0	Hello!
0:13.0	This week we're joined by Evita Robinson, the founder of No Madness Travel Tribe, an online
0:17.5	community for adventurous travelers of color.
0:20.2	Since starting it in 2011,
0:21.8	she's built a network of over 22,000 members, launched the annual travel festival, Audacity
0:26.9	Fest, and even co-created the web series, The No Madness Project, along with Insecures Issa Ray.
0:32.9	Needless to say, we are super, super, super excited to have her in the studio this week.
0:36.7	Thank you.
0:37.6	Hi, Vita.
0:38.6	Hi.
0:39.6	How are you doing today?
0:40.6	I'm good.
0:41.6	Today's been a day.
0:42.3	I've been on the road since this morning and so it's been like boom, boom, boom, but
0:45.4	this is cool.
0:46.2	I'm glad to be here.
0:47.2	Okay, well, you have like a good like 45 minutes rest now where we'll grill you with questions. No, it's fine. Listen, I'm all for it. I'm all for it.
0:54.8	I'd love to know just starting off what your relationship with travel was growing up
0:59.5	because obviously now it's such an important part of your life, but has it always been?
1:04.1	That's an amazing question, actually, because I think people start with no madness and they
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