(Click photo to view more pics of Kim)Kim Mance is a travel writer, editor, and new media broadcast personality based in Chicago, IL. Kim hosts the lively web travel series Galavanting, which is distributed by KoldCast.tv and is editor-in-chief of the online women's travel magazine, GoGalavanting.com, and writes about travel for outlets like Marie Claire's Travel Diaries, Indie Travel Podcast magazine, and The Huffington Post. She is currently writing the first Insiders' Guide to Chicago for Globe Pequot Press.

Her writing has also been featured in other places including AlterNet, Babble, and the Women's Policy Journal of Harvard. She has appeared as a panelist on PBS' The Mclaughlin Group.

Kim is founder of TBEX, a worldwide community of travel bloggers, journalists, writers and travel professionals who meet annually. 

She is on the board of the Association for Women Journalists, Chicago Chapter, and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Mid-America Chapter.

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Upcoming/Recent Speaking Engagements

New York Social Media Rountable - Travel
Feb 23, 2010 - Panel: Social Media and the Travel Industry explores the social networking tools that travel publicists, agents, and even bloggers are using to reach fans and clients.

Canada-e-Connect 2010 - Montréal, Quebec
Jan 29, 2010 - Panel: "A Forum with bloggers and influencers who write for the travelling public"

Tweet Camp Chicago
October 10, 2009 - Panel: 'How Journalists can Effectively Use Twitter"

Travel Blog Exchange '09
July 23, 2009 - Panel: 'Podcasting & Vodcasting'