Evita “Evie” Turquoise Robinson (born 1984) is a writer, motivational speaker, and is the founder of Nomadness Travel Tribe and Nomadness TV. She was born in Albany and raised in

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. She has also lived in

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, Japan, and

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. She is primarily known as a pioneer of the

urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

travel movement. After graduating from

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, where she studied film and television, Robinson attended the

New York Film Academy New York Film Academy – School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a private for-profit film school and acting school based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, ...

for a digital

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program.

Nomadness Travel

Prior to the founding of Nomadness Travel Tribe in September 2011, Robinson featured her solo travel experiences on Nomadness TV. The Nomadness

virtual community A virtual community is a social network of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Some of the most pervasive virtual communi ...

, which caters primarily to African-Americans due to a lack of representation in the target market for

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism mor ...

and

hospitality Hospitality is the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with some amount of goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt describes ...

companies, is an invitation-only group of travelers which aims to build an inclusive travel community and making world travel more accessible to

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. Influenced by

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’s book, ''Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us'', Robinson chose to refer to her travel group as a “

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

” to convey the innate quality for humans to seek out

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...

. In 2015, ''The'' ''New York Times'' reported that the collective consisted of approximately 10,000 travelers spanning 36 countries. At that time, about half of the group’s members were millennials, and the majority were African-American women. In early 2017, the group’s membership was reported to be 80 percent female. Since its inception, Nomadness Travel Tribe has organized at least four trips annually. The group’s last international trip, to

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, took place in December 2016. Robinson announced that Nomadness would instead focus on “international popup events,” including a February 2017 event in

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

, a

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celebration in

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in March, and an adult

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at the Museum of Aviation in

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in June. 2018 showed a resurgence in Nomadness group trips, with a new emotion-based itinerary model that Robinson created. In 2017, Robinson was appointed as a member of the TED Residency's third cohort. At the conclusion of the program she gave the first ever TED Talk on the Black Travel Movement.

References

External links

Evita Robinson's website

Nomadness Travel Tribe website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Evita 1984 births Living people African-American people Iona University alumni American expatriates in France American expatriates in Japan American expatriates in Thailand