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Joliene Adams

/ Storyteller

Joliene Adams is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, USA. She covers travel, the outdoors, arts, and culture for a variety of international and local USA/Canadian Pacific Northwest publications. She’s an advocate of multilingualism and has a background in language education, global literature, and supporting heritage languages as well as languages-in-revitalization. You can find her as ‘Joliene Carolina’ on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. She takes promoting accountability in the travel industry and educational sector seriously, but also believes in deep joy and can frequently be found having a good, hard laugh at just about anything.

Stories from Joliene Adams

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