A road to cultural entrepreneurship with Geetika Agrawal, Founder CEO of Vacation with an Artist

The power of design training, understanding customer needs, global travel, preserving cultures and crafts and fundraising.

In this episode I speak to Geetika Agrawal. Geetika is a designer and Founder/ CEO of Vacation With An Artist (VAWAA), a global platform to book creative vacations with remarkable artists and makers around the world where you can spend one-on-one, in-person time diving into a skill. From bamboo bicycle making in India and shoemaking in Czechia to natural textile dyeing in Vietnam, VAWAA is dedicated to promoting and preserving global arts and crafts and creating a new way to travel.

She trained as an architect and industrial designer, before a long career in digital product design. Prior to VAWAA, Geetika was a Creative Director at R/GA, a digital design agency, where she partnered with Mastercard ...