S 1 E 41 Interview with Sivani Babu and Sabine K. Bergmann, Founders of Hidden Compass Media Company

Fearless in Pink interview with Sivani Babu and Sabine K. Bergmann, founders Hidden Compass is an award-winning, women-led media company forging an alliance to turn storytellers and explorers into heroes and champions of a new age of discovery. Each year, a third to a half of Hidden Compass articles are recognized as some of the best travel features in the world.

Website: https://hiddencompass.net/ 

Sivani Babu

Sivani Babu is the co-founder, co-CEO, and creative director of Hidden Compass. She is an award-winning journalist and nature photographer who has contributed to BBC Travel, CNN, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Iron Horse Literary Review, and numerous other publications. Her work has been recognized multiple times in the Best American Travel Writing series and has appeared in exhibits from San Diego to the Sorbonne. Sivani graduated from the University of Chicago with three majors — economics, public policy studies, and political science — and one Lazarused newspaper, the Chicago Weekly News. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she taught high schoolers about their constitutional rights. As a Teach for America corps member, she taught eighth-graders about the tangency of math and literacy. After working on a Supreme Court case and representing hundreds of indigent criminal defendants, Sivani left her career as a federal public defender to sail across the most brutal sea on earth. Since then, she has chased storms through Tornado Alley, searched for polar bears in the Arctic Circle, and survived serious injury while celestially navigating the Bermuda Triangle. Sivani is working on her first book, Saving the Night: Shedding Light on the Importance of Darkness. Learn more at www.sivanibabu.com.

 

Sabine K. Bergmann

Sabine K. Bergmann is the co-founder and co-CEO of Hidden Compass. As an award-winning travel, science, and nature writer, she has contributed stories to dozens of publications — including WIRED, Sierra Magazine, and The Best Travel Writing book series — with a collective readership of more than 21 million. As an editor, she has managed content for travel companies valued at more than $500 million. Her writing has been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe, North Africa, and North America. Sabine is a Stanford University-trained environmental researcher and community coordinator who has worked on conservation projects from the Amazon Basin to the Great Barrier Reef. In 2009, she represented Stanford University climate researchers at the United Nations. From 2011-2013, she was the co-host of a live-broadcast environmental radio show in Spanish. She has battled dengue in the Peace Corps, descended 12,000 vertical feet on a bike in a single day, and inadvertently partnered with cocaine-smuggling fishermen in the Caribbean. Sabine is currently at work on her first book. Learn more at www.sabinekbergmann.com.