Kathleen covers travel news with a passion for sustainable tourism and human-focused storytelling. She is based out of Honolulu, where she grew up, and studied journalism at New York University. She is the author of the responsible travel guidebook "The Conscious Traveller Hawaiʻi: The Definitive Guide to Ethical Travel."
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