The Travel Mama, Colleen Lanin, is the author of The Travel Mamas' Guide, a book on how to vacation with children...and stay sane!

Vanessa Chiasson is a freelance writer, travel blogger, and social media strategist living based in Ottawa and her blog, TurnipseedTravel.com, focuses on getting great value around the world. You can follow her adventures on Twitter @Turnipseeds

#TravelWithPurpose is a monthly Twitter Chat dedicated to sharing and discussing ways in which travelers can create a more peaceful and understanding world.  The chat is a partnership between the Boston Hostel, Verge Magazine, and the Go Global Expo.  As purpose-driven travel organizations, the chat features themes that range from paying it forward to being a responsi

Martina Clark is a freelance writer (travel and memoir) and an MFA Candidate at Stony Brook University in New York City. Prior to writing full-time, she spent 20 years with the United Nations and other international organizations working on HIV awareness and education.

Emily Monaco is a born-and-raised New Yorker based in Paris. After many years of trying, she has come to the conclusion that she will likely never be French. She writes about her experiences with Franglais and food on her blog, tomatokumato.com.

Wandering Educators has joined the Institute of International Education’s Generation Study Abroad initiative to help more Americans to gain international experience through study abroad programs. This is one of more than 450 new commitments announced by IIE.

Florida Culture for the week of January 26, 2015 by Josh Garrick

You’re planning a trip to Disney World in Orlando, and wondering where to start, yes? It can be overwhelming, when you dig into the internet, to discover exactly WHAT you should be doing to plan a trip to Disney, and have fun while doing so.

The Teachers for Global Classrooms Program (TGC) is a year-long professional development program for elementary, middle, & high school teachers aimed at globalizing teaching and learning in U.S. classrooms.  Participants are selected through a national, open competition. TGC is a program of the U.S.

If you want to travel the world and are looking for a job to support that goal, here are three jobs that are portable for digital nomads: being a freelance writer, monetizing a travel blog, and being a website designer (although they may not be jobs for everyone). I chose to explore these three jobs as possible career paths because they interest me greatly.