Marcia DeSanctis is a journalist, essayist, and author of A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life, 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, a New York Times travel bestseller. A contributor writer at Travel + Leisure, she also writes for Air Mail, Vogue, BBC Travel and many other publications. She has won five Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and is the recipient of the 2021 Gold Award for Travel Story of the Year. Before becoming a writer, she was a television news producer for ABC, NBC and CBS News, for most of those years producing for Barbara Walters. She lives in Connecticut.

"A lot of my story in the Seychelles was about the environmental impact that developed countries have on a place like that, which is in the middle of the ocean that could disappear through rising seas. And it is really important that they have a voice and their voice is being heard. I mean, little Seychelles, population 100,000, is depending on the industrialized countries to do their part. But, sort of like my generation to the younger generation, industrialized countries are becoming aware of what they have done to these exploited countries, coastal countries, or island nations. And so, because they are aware of what they have done and the risks that all of our fossil fuels and a million other things have done to some of these more poor nations, they are giving these smaller places a seat at the table and letting their voices be louder and more heard. At some point, even ceding the floor to them, which I think is a really positive thing.”

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