Meet the Team

Michael is an adventurer and entrepreneur who fully lives Unsettled’s values and vision across his life. He’s as likely to be found on an Unsettled retreat, behind his laptop, or exploring the world by bike, sailboat, or foot.

Before Unsettled, he was the Managing Editor at Innovations Journal, a publication co-hosted by Harvard, MIT, and George Mason University, where he researched and published on the topic of entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.

He’s been a storyteller, teacher, and venture builder, but he’s most in a state of flow when he’s mountain biking, sailing, snowboarding, or exploring the wilderness somewhere. He’s a member of Sandbox and a TED Resident. Email Michael.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Clara is a global soul with a flair for adventure and exploration. Before joining Unsettled, she spent 6 years coordinating and producing events for art fairs, galleries and cultural institutions around Buenos Aires as a passionate leader in the arts. In 2017 she made the move and left her job with the Argentine Ministry of Culture to learn the art of living Unsettled. Her travels took her through Southeast Asia and she returned home and joined Unsettled as a Location Manager,  sharing the rich art, culture, and creative scenes of Buenos Aires. She then ran retreats for Unsettled as an Experience Leader in Argentina, Peru and Bali. She recently made Patagonia her new home, where she works remotely as Unsettled’s Director of Operations and spends her spare time hiking, rock climbing, sharing a meal with friends, and tracking down new adventures. Email Clara.

Jonathan Kalan is an award-winning photographer, journalist, media entrepreneur and TED Speaker. He’s traveled over 75 countries, and lived for extensive periods in Africa, the Middle East and Asia reporting for BBC, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Huffington Post, among others.

Before launching into Unsettled, he was the founding editor-in-chief of Timeline, a mobile-first newsroom designed to “break history”, providing deep historical context to breaking news and current affairs.

In his spare time, he hustles leaf plates and is an avid surfer, kayaker, biker, sailor and all-around adrenaline junkie. He is a member of Sandbox, and a TED Resident. Email Jonathan.

Originally from Illinois, Corey knows something about embracing an Unsettled lifestyle. Feeling unfulfilled in his career as an educator and fundraiser for science museums and universities in the States, he left it all behind a few years ago for a new life in Southern Africa working with the Peace Corps. He lived among African Elephants, Spotted Hyenas, and Black Mambas in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where he worked as a primary school teacher and capacity builder. Today, as an Experience Leader, he is eager to curate exciting moments – from organizing book clubs and discovering new cooking techniques to spontaneous accent battles and learning a new joke in every language. Email Corey.

Erika is a poly-passionate explorer. She has spent the last ten years putting her professional background to work in various fields, bringing the principles and power of entrepreneurialism to the arts and non-profit sectors. Her work experiences are all linked by her passion for building systems of interconnectivity, engagement, and equity. Her purpose is to harness creativity, opportunities, and ideas, and bring those resources to the whole.

A born and raised Hoosier, she produced and co-designed immersive events and pop-up experiences throughout Chicago. She is currently in Los Angeles hiking her way around Southern California with her dog Eva and completing a Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship at the USC Marshall School of Business. Email Erika.

Shitika is a journalist, social media strategist and a digital convert. In the last 10 years, she’s lived in New Delhi, Brisbane, Sydney, London and Dubai, and has penned words for Time Out, Grazia, Huffington Post, CNN, Forbes, and Cosmopolitan among others. In early 2017, Shitika quit her job as an editor for a top fashion and lifestyle magazine in the Middle East, and chose to live the digital nomad life. That six-month transition phase took her on adventures all over Asia, and soon landed her with Unsettled, where she was our first Head of Social. When not scheduling posts on Facebook, Shitika can be found making the perfect Old Fashioned cocktail, and buying overpriced Diptyque candles to burn while she settles into a very unsettling Headspace meditation session. Balance!

Originally from Jakarta, Kelly has called Bali home for the past 5 years and has spent her time exploring everything the island has to offer and amassing a wide network of awesome people, places, and thing. With a background in hospitality and restaurant management and a side passion for fine art, she joins Unsettled in Bali to share her best cultural tips, tricks, and hotspots. Ask her about where to find the best beach dance party, her favorite local bites, her background in ceramic throwing, her surprising love of data entry, and her drone pilot husband. Email Kelly.

Victoria Viola was born by the sea, then she moved to the mountains and finally arrived to Buenos Aires at the age of three. She feels as much porteña as one can get. She’s got a Graduate Degree in Communications and worked for several years behind cameras until she accepted she wanted to be in front of one. Since then she’s been part of some indie plays and written some more. Together with Fran, her husband, they have travelled across four continents (but Africa is yet to be discovered). Victoria has a special talent for solving people’s problems, so when not helping curate local experiences in Buenos Aires with Unsettled, that can be found working for her social media and creative experiences agency that she founded called FUA. Email Victoria.

An epic go-getter, Christiana (aka Christy) has spent the last five years facilitating local and international programs for entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs in her home country of Cyprus. With a focus on meaningful collaboration, exploring innovations, and building trust she has worked in everything from environmental and social projects to sustainable tourism initiatives, local festivals, and off-grid workshops.

To feed her own entrepreneurial and nomadic spirit she loves building multicultural communities where each individual can bring their unique skills, cultures, and perspectives… something she gets to do regularly as an Unsettled Experience Leader. Her spare time is filled whatever gets her moving – beautiful hikes, deep conversations, big laughs, busting a pose on the dance floor or yoga mat, and sharing her contagious energy on Unsettled trips. Email Christy.