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Kiratiana Freelon is a travel enthusiast and the author of Kiratiana’s Travel Guide to Black Paris: Get Lost and Get Found and the Black Guide to Life at Harvard. She has lived in France, Germany and Brazil and has traveled to more than 25 countries.

Kiratiana earned her degree in Economics from Harvard University in 2002.

She has written for The Grio, BlackAtlas.com, Bonjourparis.com and maintains her own travel website, KiratianaTravels.com. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Chicago Defender, NABJ Digital, Black Web 2.0 and many more.

She recently served as the editor of BlackAtlas.com, a social media travel site sponsored by American Airlines.

On March 12, 2011 Kiratiana presented, “100% viable, 1% visible” (insert link), at South by Southwest (SxSw), about the low success rate and lack of visibility among minority tech entrepreneurs. After reading that only 1% of tech start ups funded in the first round of financing were African-American, Kiratiana became extremely passionate about this issue and wanted to get to the root of the problem.

By creating a dialogue about this issue, she hopes to expose the systematic problems that prevent more minorities from becoming tech entrepreneurs and highlight possible solutions.