GRIOTS REPUBLIC - An Urban Black Travel Mag - April 2016

04 ARIELLE
LOREN
TRAVELER PROFILE
Arielle Loren is a sexuality thought leader, writer, and
filmmaker, who has dedicated her career to empowering
dialogue about sex. Her work has been featured and
praised by The Huffington Post, NPR, ESSENCE,
Jezebel, NBC News (The Grio), BET, EBONY, The Root,
and Clutch Magazine.
In 2012, she sat as one of three panelists on the
“Erotica Out In The Open” panel for BlogHer, the largest
conference in the world for women in social media, and
the Women’s Media Center honored her in 2011 for
empowering women online. Loren is one of the select
contributors to be featured in the first-ever anthology
about E. L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey called 50 Writers
on 50 Shades of Grey. She also directed and produced
a media-acclaimed documentary, Bideology, about
women dating bisexual men (http://muvi.es/w2240).
A graduate of New York University & Georgetown
University, she also works as a business and media
strategist to small businesses and large organizations,
while teaching online (http://touringforstartups.com).
She’s the founder of CORSET and serves as the
company’s CEO and magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, leading
CORSET’s international community of readers on their
journeys to sexual empowerment.
(Taken from website: corsetmagazine.com)