Meet Rebecca

Rebecca Gade-Sawicki

Rebecca is the founder, travel advisor, trip designer, podcast host, and frequent suitcase-packer behind Veggies Abroad.
After spending 15 years in fundraising and communications, Rebecca launched the Veggies Abroad travel blog in 2021 as a way to combine her love of travel with her enthusiasm for finding really good vegan food — and, hopefully, find her way toward a new career in the process.

As it turns out, that career change was already underway. In 2023, she expanded Veggies Abroad into a full-service travel company, bringing together her years of impact-focused work with her passion for exploring the world. What started as a place to help travelers find great vegan food has since grown into something much bigger: creating thoughtful adventures that consider not only what’s on the plate, but how travel can positively impact animals, local communities, and the places we visit.

When she isn’t planning someone else’s adventure, she’s usually scouting a future Veggies Abroad destination, or spending time snuggling her four incredibly spoiled kitties and husband (equally spoiled, too).   

Favorite travel experience: Trekking to see gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.