Press

Highlighted Press & Features

Restoration Romance (Upstate House)

Inside the junkyard of architectural gems (Financial Times)

The Pandemic Changed The World Of ‘Voluntourism.’ Some Folks Like The New Way Better (NPR)

Voluntourism: new book explores how volunteer trips harm rather than help (The Guardian)

A Daughter, Her Dad, and the Debate Over Pricey Teen Volunteer Trips (New York Times)

The Business of Voluntourism: Do western do-gooders actually do harm? (The Guardian) 

Podcasts, Radio, and Video Interviews

How to Help without Doing Harm (Top of Mind with Julie Rose) July 2022

#3 The Halo Effect (The White Saviors by Canadaland) August 2021

#2 The Cult of Kielburger (The White Saviors by Canadaland) August 2021

#1 The Children’s Crusade (The White Saviors by Canadaland) August 2021

When You Think You’re Saving Lives; The Dangers of Voluntourism (Dear Lifesaver by Islamic Relief UK) July 2021

Voluntourism: Do we need to rethink the medical elective? (part 2) (Just Health podcast) April 2021

Voluntourism: Rethinking the medical elective (part 1) (Just Health podcast) April 2021

Mystery Box (Curious Objects podcast) December 2020
*Magazine Antiques article on the interview

Little White Girls and Voluntourism (The Good Problem podcast) January 2020

What’s a gap year? (Stuff You Should Know podcast) December 5, 2019

How Not to Save the World (BBC World Service Radio – Business Daily) December 6, 2018

THE STREAM: Medical Volunteerism (Al Jazeera – Video, 7:35 and 17:30)

Not a Saviour Podcast: Episode 6 (Not a Saviour) April 20, 2017

The Newsmakers (TRT WorldTV Interview 3:30-4:10) Feb. 1, 2016

Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan #115 (Radio Interview) Dec. 2015 *audio available on request

Additional Press

10 Books to Read When the World’s Completely on Fire (Fodor‘s Travel) September 2022

Voluntourism: How is it Still Happening and What Are The Alternatives? (Road Book) September 2022

High on Helping: The Dangers of Voluntourism (The New York Times) June 2022

Social Justice, Colonialism and Reforming Voluntourism: A Q&A with author Pippa Biddle (Verge Magazine) December 2021

‘Ours to explore’, de Pippa (Culturamas.es) September 8, 2021

“No feu el que jo vaig fer”: una jove alerta dels perills del “volunturisme” (Catalunya Radio) June 26, 2021

How Not to Volunteer Abroad: An Interview with Author Pippa Biddle (Catalyst) May 21, 2021

An Excerpt from ‘Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism’ (The FBomb) April 28, 2021

Voluntourism Adapting to Pandemic (Healthy Debate) January 18, 2021

Can You Go Home Again? (The New York Times) October 4, 2019 – appeared in print October 6, 2019, Section RE, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: When a Trip Down Memory Lane Hits a Shifted Wall

Voluntourism is not a vacation (Cherwell) November 2, 2019

Voluntourism: A resume-booster for Stanford-hopefuls, but a flawed means of public service (The Stanford Daily) August 13, 2019

The business of voluntourism (The College View) February 20, 2019

Philippa Biddle on the Power of Recognizing Privilege (The Power Thread) February 7, 2019

Australia Leads Way in Fight Against Orphanage Trafficking (The Epoch Times) December 20, 2018

Episode 23: Voluntourism (Kicking the Kyriarchy) July 3, 2018

Can Help Hurt? (Harvard Political Review) June 11, 2018

Lessons Learned: True Stories of Humanitarian Responders on the Front Line (Book) May 2018

Volunteerism or Voluntourism? (The Politic) May 1, 2018

Opinion: ‘Voluntourism’ does more harm than good (The Panther) April 29, 2018

A Not So Helping Hand (Buzzsaw Magazine) October 17, 2017

Traveling for a Cause (Leisure Group Travel) July 26, 2017

Orientalism and the New-Imperialism of ‘Voluntourism’ (Baines Report) January 27, 2017

Voluntourism talk: Are you doing more harm than good?  (Bucknellian) November 3, 2016

Visiting Writer Explains Meaningful Service (Dickinsonian) October 27, 2016

Royal Geographical Society Magazine (available upon request) October 2016

Voluntourism on the rise: a call to reexamine how we help (Whitman Wire) September 22, 2016

Considering volunteering on your gap year? A summer on the beach might be better (iNews) August 28, 2016

THINK Leaders – Digital Founders Panel (IBM) August 22, 2016

A message for Louise Linton and anyone considering voluntourism: nobody needs your neo-colonialist ‘aid’ (The Independent) July 6, 2016

You Don’t Have to Be a ‘Voluntourist’ to Travel With a Cause (Mic) June 6, 2016

Voluntourism: good, bad, and ugly (pararox.com) April 27, 2016

Reevaluating the pitfalls of voluntourism (McGill Tribune) Mar. 22, 2016

Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic Engagement (Book) February 2016

Voluntourism: A Wide Spectrum (Strayer Magazine) Feb. 2016

We Need More Skilled Volunteers, Not More ‘Voluntourists’ (New University) Feb. 16, 2016

Do So Much Day: A lesson in Volunteering (The Ontarion) Feb. 11, 2016

Doing More Harm Than Help (The Broadview) Feb. 4, 2016

Interview with Columbia’s Undergrad Creative Writing Podcast (Re:Vision) Feb. 1, 2016 *available on request

Voluntourism: Helpful or Harmful Humanitarianism? (Cafe Babel) Jan. 2016

The social bad in selling social good (Huffington Post) Dec. 2015

5 Young Entrepreneurs (and Katniss Everdeen) Share the Importance of Practicing Gratitude (Forbes) Nov. 2015

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education (Book) October 2015

Onwards: Non-Profit Launches to Help Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries (Tech.Co) Sept. 2015

Volunteer Tourism: The lifestyle politics of international development (Book, page 43) June 2015

Conversations with a Little White Girl (Hai Afrika) June 2015

CBC Documentary Edited By Insurance Company (Canadaland) April 2015

Good Intentions Aren’t Enough: Advice for Voluntourists (Huffington Post) April 2015

Counter Culture with Kweli Washington April 2015

Taking on America’s “Voluntourism” (New African) March 2015

Here’s the Footage that got a CBC Doc Pulled off the Air (Canadaland) March 2015

Free the Children’s Voluntourism Prioritizes Emotional Experience Over Efficient Aid (The Gateway) Feb. 2015

The Opposite of Spoiled (Book) February 2015

The Problem of Privilege (Review of The Opposite of Spoiled) (Wall Street Journal) Feb. 2015

Interview with The Women Who (thewomenwho.com) Dec. 2014

Voluntourism and the Truth Behind the “Gap Yah” (Nouse) Dec. 2014

Pippa Biddle: Letter To Sisters About Her Sexual Assault Will Break Your Heart! (Inquisitr) Nov. 2014

Vi Racconto Come Sono Stata Stuprata (Post Internzationale) Nov. 2014

‘Voluntourism’ is Not the Solution to Providing International Aid (Care2) Nov. 2014

Voluntourism is a ‘waste of time and money’ – and gappers are better off working in Britain (The Independent) Oct. 2014

Women to Watch in Entrepreneurship and Tech (Tech Cocktail) Oct. 2014

Volunteer tourism fails to truly aid foreign countries (The Justice) Sept. 30, 2014

Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community [Book, Chapter 19] (Melissa Wadsworth) 2014

Students Talk International Service… (USA Today College) May 2014

The Privilege of Plaid (The Fourcast) April 2014

Is Teenage ‘Voluntourism’ Wrong? (New York Times) March 2014

The Never-Ending Controversy Over All-Girls Education (The Atlantic) March 2014

Is it the Thought that Counts? (Think Magazine) March 2014

International Volunteers Need Better Preparation (Central Florida Future) March 2014

On the sticky ethics of voluntourism (Matador Network) March 2014

Guide to Life: How to Volunteer Abroad (Gear Patrol) March 2014

TheFixers: A Generation Born Without AIDS (Forbes) March 2013

Celebrity Advocates, Students to Mark International Day of Peace at United Nations Headquarters (UN) Sept. 19, 2012