Lola Akinmade
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige
11 tn följare
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[StrengthsFinder Themes]: Connectedness, Belief, Arranger, Developer, and Strategic
[16Personalities]: ENFP-A (Campaigner)
- 2024 NAACP Nominated Author for Outstanding Literature
- 2024 Condé Nast Traveler's "Most Powerful Women in Travel" List
- 2023 Most Influential Women in Travel List by Travel Pulse
- 2022 Hasselblad Heroine
- 2021 with a Newsweek Future of Travel Storytelling Award
- Award-winning visual storyteller, international bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and travel entrepreneur.
- 14+ years experience in providing enterprise solutions, interactive design, systems integration, content management, and UX/UI development.
- 12+ years domain expertise as a visual storyteller and thought leader within the travel industry
- Dispatched from 80+ countries with work featured in National Geographic, New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Travel Channel, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, Forbes, and many more - https://www.akinmade.com
- Collaborated as a visual storyteller with commercial brands such as Dove, Mercedes Benz, Intrepid Travel, Electrolux, National Geographic Channel, Absolut Vodka, Four Seasons, KLM Airlines, MasterCard, Swedish Institute, Skyscanner, Visit Sweden, and many more.
- Founder of Stockholm-based travel media and visual storytelling consultancy, Geotraveler Media.
- Co-founder of Local Purse which is a web-based platform where travel guides, local artisans, and cultural vendors can host travelers using live video shopping. Winner of the 2021 Bessie Award for Social Impact
- Co-founder of the NordicTB Collective of professional travel influencers based in Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and Norway.
- Awarded the 2018 Bill Muster Travel Photographer of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers.
- Recognized with multiple awards and nominations for my work, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, and was honoured with a MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Award within media and culture in 2018.
- Run my own online academy, Geotraveler Media Academy, which is dedicated to visual storytelling and helping the next generation of travel storytellers put their heart back into the craft.
- Author of international bestselling "LAGOM: The Swedish Secret of Living Well" available in 18 foreign language editions, and 2018 Lowell Thomas Award winner for best travel book, DUE NORTH. Upcoming novel, "In Every Mirror She's Black", will be published as a lead hardcover from several publishers this autumn.
- Past career as GIS system architect and programmer.
Artiklar av Lola
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Head of Zeus snaps up two more novels from Lola Akinmade Åkerström
Head of Zeus snaps up two more novels from Lola Akinmade Åkerström
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In Every Mirror She's Black
Sourcebooks Landmark
Visa publikationA timely and arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.
Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people.
Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible contemporary novel that touches on important social…A timely and arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.
Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people.
Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible contemporary novel that touches on important social issues of racism, classism, fetishization, and tokenism, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society.
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Due North
Geotraveler Media Sweden
Visa publikationDue North is a collection of travel observations, reflections, and snapshots spanning two decades across colors, cultures, and continents by award-winning travel writer and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström.
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Swedish
Professionell yrkeskunskap
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Yoruba
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Englisch
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International Travel Writers Alliance
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Society of American Travel Writers (SATW)
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Svenska Fotografers Förbund
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