Speaker Profile

Lauren Gay

Creator

Lauren Gay is an adventure travel content creator, creator of Misadventures of an Outdoorsy Diva Blog, host/producer of the Outdoorsy Diva Podcast, on-air TV travel expert, published photographer, and speaker.

She is passionate about inspiring and empowering black women to step out of their comfort zones for new experiences in travel and adventure and embracing nature as therapy. Lauren is also a dedicated long time advocate for racial diversity and inclusion in outdoor recreation and adventure travel and a founding member of the Black Travel Alliance.

Lauren is a regular on-air travel expert for CBS Great Day Live, MORtv Goin Places with Ricc Rollins. She has been featured as 2020 USA Today Readers Choice Top 10 Adventure Travel Expert, on ABC News national syndicate, Huffington Post Travel, Conde Naste, The Outbound, Kayak.com, Backpacker, Tampa Bay Parenting and BBC Earth.

Upcoming Events

TBEX North America 2026

June 23 - 26 * Richmond, Virginia

TBEX Asia 2026

August 20 - 23 * Almaty, Kazakhstan

TBEX Türkiye 2027

September 7 – 10 * Izmir, Türkiye