Author Ken Budd will discuss travel, purpose, feeling stupid (his specialty) and his memoir The Voluntourist at JEB Stuart High School in Falls Church, Virginia on April 7 at 7:30 […]
Read More »For a limited time, Ken Budd’s award-winning memoir, The Voluntourist, is available as a $1.99 e-book. You’ll find the special price wherever e-books are sold, including: Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million […]
Read More »A story focusing on Ken Budd’s volunteer work in China won gold on Friday in the annual North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) awards competition, which honors outstanding work in […]
Read More »Dear friends and readers of The Voluntourist, This past weekend, the Calvary Zion children’s home, where my wife and I volunteered in Kenya, was attacked by roughly six men armed […]
Read More »Here’s a holiday message from Ken Budd: Hello! I’d like to ask a favor. This week, I’m working with Rebuilding Together New Orleans (RTNO) on a campaign we’re calling “A […]
Read More »“Writing a memoir is a selfish act. For the memoir to work, to truly be alive, the honesty of the writing must outweigh the feelings of your subjects.” So writes […]
Read More »What does Ken Budd have in common with Bill Bryson, Jane Goodall, and Nicholas D. Kristof? Their works are all featured in a list of the best books to read […]
Read More »Want to change your life? There’s a four-letter word (with one apostrophe) that you need to banish from your mind, Ken Budd writes in a new essay for Huff Post […]
Read More »Ken Budd, author of The Voluntourist, is working with the friends and family of Franco Lalama to create a scholarship that will help people to volunteer abroad with Cross-Cultural Solutions. Mr. […]
Read More »“If you’re not failing, you’re not living,” Ken Budd writes in a new article for LifeReimagined.org titled “Dare to Be Stupid.” The article—an idiot’s guide to being an idiot, as […]
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