About
Carla Seidl graduated from Harvard University, where she created her own major called Expression and Culture Studies at the crossroads of folklore, anthropology, and the creative and performing arts. Her search for the ideal way of life has taken her from simple to complex cultures and back again: Carla has traveled extensively, teaching on the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, leading living history tours in Death Valley, doing organic farming in Italy, working as a cook for a wealthy family on a private island, pursuing storytelling research in Argentina, studying Chilean folklore in Santiago, Chile, and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan and now in Togo.
Carla speaks several foreign languages, was a National Merit Scholar as well as an All-State Singer, and is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She has received grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Harvard College Research Program, mountain biked down the world’s most dangerous road in Bolivia, and completed an Outward Bound wilderness course. Her writing has been published in Perceptive Travel and Legacy Magazine, and her radio documentaries have been aired on Weekend America, The Splendid Table, and World Vision Report. She recently released her debut album, Under My Skin, and her first book, The Sophisticated Savage.
