Evita Robinson

Evita “Evie” Turquoise Robinson (born 1984) is a writer, two time Emmy award winning storyteller with destinations and brands, keynote speaker, and is the founder of Nomadness Travel Tribe. She was born in Albany and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York. She has also lived in Paris, Japan, and Thailand. She is primarily known as a pioneer of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) urban travel movement.

After graduating from Iona College, where she studied film and television, Robinson attended the New York Film Academy in Paris for a digital filmmaking program.

Garnering accolades for her work done on diversity and representation within the tourism industry, since creating Nomadness Travel Tribe in September 2011, Evita’s accolades include National Geographic’s ‘21 Most Visionary Women Throughout Travel History’, AFAR Travel Vanguard Award recipient, The Root 100, and being noted as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018. Evita was also invited to the White House under the Obama Administration for their meeting of world's creative change makers, for SXSL (South By South Lawn). In 2017, she was inducted into the third cohort of the TED Residency, and gave her noted TED Talk, "Reclaiming the Globe' that June. Given her work within Black travel data research with the team at CODE Institute, she is also a published scholar in the academic journal Tourism Geographies.

She now serves as a two time Emmy Award winning host of various travel series’ for diversified destination marketing and tourism campaigns. Her focus now is non-fiction, as well as writing and producing for the screen – taking nearly two decades of international travel, community building, and cultural immersion to amplify the stories of those most forgotten.