{"id":60921,"date":"2023-06-15T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wearetravelgirls.com\/?p=60921"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:51:35","slug":"ceo-vanessa-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wearetravelgirls.com\/ceo-vanessa-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: A MESSAGE FROM OUR NEW CEO &#038; CO-FOUNDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, co-founder Becky van Dijk <a href=\"https:\/\/wearetravelgirls.com\/community-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> she will be leaving We Are Travel Girls to pursue other entrepreneurial ventures. While we will miss her very much, she will always be part of We Are Travel Girls, and I&#8217;m humbled to have the opportunity to lead our community into the next chapter.<\/p>\n<p>To echo Becky&#8217;s sentiments, I&#8217;m incredibly proud of the community we&#8217;ve built together over the past seven years thanks to<em> your<\/em> support. We created We Are Travel Girls with the simple mission to promote and elevate the voices of female travelers. Since launch, we have published travel stories and guides from hundreds of female travel writers around the globe that have helped empower women to travel the world with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>We also dreamed of bringing together travel-loving women <em>in person<\/em> as well as online. So I&#8217;m excited to announce that as the new CEO, I&#8217;m going to be focusing my energy on re-launching <a href=\"https:\/\/getaways.wearetravelgirls.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel Girls Getaways<\/a> and hosting more in-person <a href=\"https:\/\/wearetravelgirls.com\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATG Events<\/a> in Los Angeles (where I live) and other cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m passionate about giving back, so I&#8217;m also committed to using our platform to support and raise money for charity. 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