Stephanie Block is an award-winning travel writer and Editor-in-Chief of Tango Diva (http://www.tangodiva.com), the premier women's online travel magazine. She can toast and gamble in several languages and makes a career out of traveling and telling.

Her global shopping secrets have been featured in Marie Claire magazine, and her book editing credits include the fantastic, "Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone," to which she also contributed many chapters, as well as the seminal essay collection from the first convention, Netroots Nation (http://www.netrootsnation.org/), born of progressive blogging behemoth Daily Kos, "unConventional," to which contributed an essay.

Stephanie's passport is like first class on a holiday weekend—totally full! Texan by the grace of Diva, Stephanie found her way out to California having visited over 50 countries and lived in many herself, including France, India, Jamaica, Germany and Japan. A graduate of Vassar College with a major in English, Stephanie is an avid grammarian and former high school English teacher with a Masters in Educational Technology.

She is a proud Board Member of Spark (http://www.sparksf.org/).