GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - AUGUST 2016
O Canada! Our August issue is a destination issue on Canada. Check out profiles from The Passport Party Project, Olympian Aaron Kingsley Brown, Oneika The Traveller and My Wander Year. This issue also includes a Black Lives Matter Special Section.
O Canada! Our August issue is a destination issue on Canada. Check out profiles from The Passport Party Project, Olympian Aaron Kingsley Brown, Oneika The Traveller and My Wander Year.
This issue also includes a Black Lives Matter Special Section.
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ARTY<br />
01 PASSPORT<br />
PARTY PROJECT<br />
<strong>TRAVEL</strong>ER PROFILE<br />
The Passport Party Project is a National Geographic<br />
award-winning global awareness initiative<br />
providing first passports to underrepresented<br />
American girls 11-15. The Passport Party<br />
Project helps plant the seeds of community<br />
service, international exploration, study abroad<br />
& global citizenship.<br />
The founder, Tracey Friley, is an award-winning<br />
travelpreneur & travelanthropist (with stories<br />
published on sites like Oprah’s Angel Network,<br />
American Airlines’ Black Atlas & TravelChannel.<br />
com). She is also the face behind “One Brown<br />
Girl in Paris” and has been taking teen girls on<br />
travel adventures to places like the U.S. Virgin<br />
Islands, Belize, Lake Shasta, Paris & Toronto<br />
since 2010.<br />
A self-proclaimed culturalista and Francophile,<br />
Tracey is also a lifelong entrepreneur with an<br />
MBA in Global Management. She enjoys planning<br />
and hosting trips to Paris for women & girls,<br />
and has owned & operated a French-themed permanent<br />
pop-up boutique for close to 10 years<br />
where she sells the treasures she finds while<br />
travelling. The creator of The Phantasmagorical<br />
Adventures of Buttercup Bottletop, Tracey finds<br />
magic wherever she goes.<br />
Bio taken from their website:<br />
www.passportpartyproject.org
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