Shivya Nath: Founder

Shivya is an award-winning travel and climate storyteller, and madly in love with this planet we call home.

She grew up in a valley in the Indian Himalayas, and began her career at the Singapore Tourism Board over 15 years ago. Following a volunteer travel stint with a social enterprise in the Trans-Himalayas, she became deeply passionate about conscious travel and climate action. Over the next seven years, she lived out of two bags, spending time with local and Indigenous communities across the globe, pursuing storytelling at the intersection of meaningful travel, the environment and social impact.

Her words have appeared in BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, The Washington Post and other leading publications. She is the bestselling author of The Shooting Star: A girl, her backpack and the world (Penguin, 2018) and Rootless and Restless: A woman’s search for meaningful adventure in distant places (Penguin, 2026). She runs the award-winning conscious travel blog, The Shooting Star.

Shivya has been featured by The Washington Post among travellers changing the way we think about the world, by National Geographic Traveller among travellers of color smashing stereotypes, and in the BBC film, The Audacious, on living your best (sustainable) life. She is a recipient of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards (Society of American Travel Writers, 2023), the Inspire Global Media Awards (London, 2025), and the Bessie Awards (New York, 2025).

She holds a Master’s in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University (DCE), where her capstone research focused on climate adaptation solutions in tourism. She also holds a professional certificate in sustainable tourism from the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).

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