World Footprints Featured in New Book
World Footprints is proud to be featured in the new book, Become an Award Winning Company by award-winning speaker Matt Shoup. Become an Award Winning Company details seven steps to boosting business and credibility through awards. World Footprints Media was profiled because of the multiple travel journalism awards the company has won and also because of the company’s focus to advance social good.
The book shares interviews with some of the nation’s most well respected award-winning CEOs, entrepreneurs and leaders that have done the same.

Tonya Fitzpatrick, Esq. is co-Founder of World Footprints, a social impact travel storytelling content hub she runs with her husband, Ian, that has been recognized as Best Social Impact Travel Media Company by CEO Monthly. She is an award-winning travel and business journalist, global public speaker, and 3-time TEDx speaker. Tonya regularly shares her insights on career transitions, DEIA in travel and the transformative power of travel to audiences all over the world. Recognized as Black Travel Journalists of the Year—an honor she shares with Ian, Tonya contributes her time and leadership to several boards and commissions in the travel community including SATW, The Explorers Club (DC), North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) and JourneyWoman. Tonya recently was been appointed to the Maryland Tourism Development Board by Gov. Wes Moore.