Dr. Anu Taranath is the author of Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World and has been a professor at Seattle’s University of Washington for 20 years. She’s one of AFAR’s new Unpacked columnists. Her work has appeared in Jaggery, Yes!, and Away Journal.
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Anu Taranath
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