Loren
Braunohler

Before joining Ciao Bambino, I spent nearly a decade in the U.S. Foreign Service as a U.S. diplomat serving in Mozambique, Venezuela, Australia, Sudan, Washington, D.C., and Thailand. I stepped away from government service to focus on my family in 2011, but we continued to move across the globe for my husband’s work, and we lived in Poland, Ukraine, and Newport, Rhode Island. When I resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2011, I started a career as a freelance travel writer for outlets such as Travel+Leisure, CNN, The New York Times, NBC Today, Ciao Bambino, and others. I founded my blog Rise and Explore in 2017 to detail our adventures and inspire families to travel the world, and joined Ciao Bambino as a Travel Advisor in 2025.

Travel is one of the most valuable gifts that you can give yourself and your family. Traveling the world opens minds, builds empathy, and brings families closer through shared discovery. For over a decade, I have captured our family’s travels in writing and shared them with the world, and now, as a travel advisor, I get to plan those experiences for others. That is exciting, and incredibly rewarding. My goal is to send families on journeys full of meaningful experiences across a range of landscapes and cultures. My hope is that these travels will serve as tremendous memories for decades to come.