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Kiratiana Freelon

CUNY School of Journalism
Student
Greater Chicago Area

Kiratiana Freelon is a travel enthusiast, culturist, lecturer and the author of "Kiratiana’s Travel Guide to Black Paris: Get Lost and Get Found." Her digital efforts also landed her on Black Enterprises’s list of Top Women to follow on Tech. In a valiant effort to merge her travel and digital lives, she will soon be launching the book as a mobile guide for the Android and iPhone platforms. She is the founder and principal of Eunique Enterprises, a digital and marketing consulting firm.  Kiratiana first caught the travel bug as a 20 year-old student studying abroad in Munich, Germany. Her weekend trips to places like Florence, Prague and Paris left her with a desire to explore the rest of the world. After graduating from Harvard University with an Economics degree, Harvard  fulfilled her travel dream by blessing her with a $20,000 travel fellowship that took her across West Africa, throughout Brazil and back to Europe. Unsatisfied traveling just for the selfish pleasure of enriching herself, she set out to write a fun, cultural travel guide to encourage more people to explore different cultures through travel. The result was "Kiratiana’s Travel Guide to Black Paris." She has lived in France, Germany and Brazil and has traveled to more than 25 countries. She has written for The Grio, BlackAtlas.com, Bonjourparis.com and maintains her own travel website, KiratianaTravels.com. She has been featured in the New York Times, Black Enterprise, the Chicago Defender, NABJ Digital, Black Web 2.0 and many more. She recently served as the editor of BlackAtlas.com, a social media travel site sponsored by American Airlines. You can follow her on twitter at @kiratiana. As a sought out speaker, she has presented at South by South West (SXSW), and the Alliance Française of Chicago. Kiratiana also enjoys mentoring young people, traveling with her family, and singing in the church choir.