Pippa Biddle

Philippa (Pippa) Biddle is a New York-based writer. Her work has been published by Guernica, The Atlantic, Wired, BBC Travel, AMC Outdoors, the magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and more. She has been featured in numerous online and print media outlets including The New York Times, The Independent, and Al Jazeera.

Pippa’s first book, Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power and The Paradox of Voluntourism, an exposé of service-based tourism as contemporary colonialism, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. It is scheduled for publication in 2020.

Pippa is featured in two documentary films, Volunteers Unleashed (2015, available on Amazon and iTunes) and When I Say Africa, release date forthcoming. She was also featured in New York Times columnist Ron Lieber’s 2015 bestselling book, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money. She has appeared as a guest speaker at numerous universities, institutions, and events around the world including the United Nations, IBM, the US Summit and Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy, Whitman College, Bennington College, Dickinson College, and UNC-Chapel Hill.

From 2010 to 2011, she served as the Roots & Shoots Youth Leadership Fellow at the Jane Goodall Institute. She also helped to build BrightCo, a tech startup that joined GLG in the summer of 2014. Pippa has written content for television in partnership with Bridge the Gap TV. Shows she has worked on have aired on major networks including PBS and National Geographic. She is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing.

In 2018, Pippa was a member of the founding team of The Dispatch, by Folk Rebellion. As Associate Editor of the monthly print publication, Pippa was a leading force in designing and directing the publication through its first six issues.

Pippa lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York. When not writing, she helps run Quittner Antiques, an antique store and furniture repair shop in Germantown, NY.

Clips and past media experience are all posted on website