She Packs Light and Spreads Light with Gabby Beckford of @Packslight

Gabby Beckford

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

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Packs Lights is a solo female travel & lifestyle blog founded by Gabby Beckford in 2020. It features travel tips, study abroad resources, travel grants and scholarship tips for all ages, and photography from around the world.

The blog offers nearly every type of resource for young travelers. The website uses movies and tales to motivate visitors to backpack around their favorite destinations. It also provides travel budgeting ideas, confidence boosters, and travel tricks. The site’s main attractions include travel patterns, ideas, photographs, news, and more.

Gabby is a TEDx speaker, Opportunity Expert, and Gen Z Travel Expert at Packs Light. She dropped her engineering profession at the age of 24 to focus on her adventure blogging. She has explored over 45 countries as a full-time digital nomad since 2021. It turns out to be the finest decision she’s ever made.

While in college, she received a $75,000 scholarship. It enabled her to complete her Mathematics degree debt-free in Dubai, UAE.

Gabby’s passion for travel began early, and she started blogging after her final year in high school. Her first income blogging was from an Amazon affiliate link.

Gabby’s Milestones and Awards

Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel.
Emerging Voice Award.
Wanderful’s Bessie Awards.
Trailblazer Award.
Traverse’s 12-Month Achievement Award.
Finalist for Newsweek’s Future of Travel awards.

She has already been featured in publications such as Good Morning America, CNNTravel, National Geographic, Travel+Leisure, Lonely Planet, ShondaLand, and others for her expertise.

In 2020, she became the co-founder of the Black Travel Alliance and a member of the American Influencer Council in 2022.

Her assistance helped many young travelers by arranging free excursions to Azerbaijan, Egypt, Italy, Costa Rica, and other locations.

Last year, her sponsors of social media posts and blog pieces earned her more than $170,000 in gross cash.