About Womantraveler

Janis Johnson, editor of womantraveler, is principal of Johnson Consulting, a strategic communications practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in counseling organizations and executives -- for-profit businesses, non-profits, and higher education institutions -- in creating customized communications programs to achieve business goals and successful client relationships. She brings more than 30 years' expertise in developing print, electronic, and Web communications for external and internal visibility, marketing, fund-raising, and stakeholder buy-in and support.

Janis has enjoyed a long love affair with travel, dating back to high school as a summer exchange student in Norway and then later after living for a year in France. She launched into journalism as a career and spent more than two decades as a staff and freelance writer for publications such as The Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Knight-Ridder/Tribune newswire, and Washington Dossier magazine. Janis also has contributed to Self, Longevity, Smithsonian, South Florida, and Humanities magazines, oversaw the creation of Digital City Washington’s first consumer health website, and wrote for YourDoctor.com.

Today, as a communications consultant and frequent traveler for business and leisure, Janis invites you to share your experiences as womentravelers -- and those who travel and do business with them.