Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele is a travel memoirist and founder of the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. “Meeting Faith,” her account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist Nun, won the PEN Open Book Award. Faith is a Senior Editor for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, and co-editor of “Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology.” Her essays have appeared in travel anthologies, including “The Best Women’s Travel Writing,” for which she penned the 2009 introduction. The PBS documentary “My Journey Home” tracks her travels to Nigeria to find her family. An associate professor at California College of the Arts, Faith has taught memoir and travel writing in Bali, Finland, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Switzerland.