Kiratiana F.

State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

$200 - $1000 / Day

About

Kiratiana is a JABE—Journalist, Author, Blogger and Entrepreneur. After graduating cum laude from Harvard University and winning the John Finley travel fellowship, she embarked upon a year-long round the world trip that changed her life. After a year as a community journalist in Chicago, she moved to Paris, taught English to French 12-year-old kids and started a blog. That blog became “Kiratiana’s Travel Guide to Black Paris,” a book she published in 2010. She then entered the field of digital marketing, working on the Olympic Games, American Airlines and Goodnites underwear brands. Soon after covering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games for Kenya’s Daily Nation—the largest newspaper in East Africa—Kiratiana decided to return to journalism full-time, focusing on digital and social journalism. She is now studying international reporting and video journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Her longterm goal is to start a company that combines truth-seeking multimedia