Alumna travel influencer shares her story and top travel tips | FIU News [Video]

Alumna Jen Ruiz ’09 is a travel guru.

She is also an author, entrepreneur and three-time TEDx speaker who has been featured by The Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News, Forbes, Insider and more. She has traveled across the globe to places ranging from Greece and Argentina to Thailand, Iceland and Jordan. Along the way, she blogs about her adventures and shares tips for affordable traveling.

She is an author of six books covering topics such as ways to solo travel safely and how to transform a blog into a business. Most recently, she wrote her memoir, “12 Trips in 12 Months,” which was published by Blackstone Publishing, the same publisher that earlier this year released books by Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Downey Jr. Ruiz and her new book have been featured in news stories, podcasts and even on a billboard in Times Square.

How did Ruiz become so successful?

It started with …