La Carmina

La Carmina (www.lacarmina.com) is a prominent Goth / alt subcultures, travel and style blogger, TV host (Bizarre Foods, Oddities, Taboo, Kawaii TV), journalist (Huffington Post, AOL, CNN), and author of 3 food books (Random House, Penguin) -- including Cute Yummy Time and Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo. Her influential blog has a passionate following and is featured in major media (New Yorker, LA Times, Washington Post). Journalism work includes: CNN, Huffington Post, AOL, Business Insider. She heads a coolhunting firm that provides consulting and TV hosting/arranging chiefly in Tokyo. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School. La Carmina is flown worldwide to speak and attend events, including press trips to Israel, Maldives, Eastern Europe, Phoenix, Macau, Mexico, Hong Kong. She has a large online following, with a popular site and social networks. Speeches include NY Fashion Week, Hong Kong Social Media Week, PRSA Travel & Tourism conference, Mediabistro Summit. La Carmina has years of on-camera travel TV hosting experience (Food Network, Today Show, Travel Channel, NHK Japan, Dutch Pepsi, Sony Australia, Canal Plus France, Discovery, National Geographic, CNN). She also hosts and produces her own travel video series for AOL / Huffington Post. See her TV reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66w1YOg9HK0 For more, please visit http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/ and see bio info at http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/bio