About Ken Budd

Ken Budd’s writing credits include The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, NationalGeographic.com, The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, CityLab, AARP The Magazine, McSweeney’s, and many more. His writing has won gold awards from the Society of American Travel Writers and the North American Travel Journalists Association, and his work will appear in the 2020 edition of The Best American Travel Writing. He has made nearly 100 appearances on TV and radio, including NBC’s Today, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, CBS’s The Early Show, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. Ken is the host of 650,000 Hours, an upcoming web series on travel and real-life heroes. After volunteering in New Orleans and Costa Rica, Ken worked in four countries in nine months—China, Ecuador, Palestine, Kenya—for his memoir, The Voluntourist. He is available for speaking engagements through the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau. You can follow Ken on Twitter—@Ken_Budd—and on Facebook. Here’s Ken discussing The Voluntourist on C-SPAN’s Book TV and DC Fox 5.

Contact Info

You can e-mail Ken at ken@650000hours.com.