Sucheta Rawal

Sucheta Rawal is an award-winning food and travel writer, speaker, and author contributing to over two dozen publications including TIME Magazine, CNN, Travel+Leisure, Fodor’s, Southern Living, HuffPost, AAA, AJC, and Atlanta Magazine. Locally, Sucheta is the dining columnist at Georgia Trend Magazine and Khabar Magazine. 

After immigrating from India, Sucheta graduated from Georgia State University with a Master’s in Finance and worked in investment banking and consulting before realizing her true passion was to travel and tell stories. Without any background in journalism, she made her way up from blogging, to writing for local and national publications. In 2011, Sucheta founded Go Eat Give, a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit with a mission to raise awareness of different cultures through travel, food, and community service. The Atlanta-based organization promotes meaningful and sustainable travel. 

When she realized that there weren’t many writers educating kids about travel, Sucheta created a series of five children’s books, “Beato Goes To Greenland, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, and Israel” for young readers to learn about the world and become informed global citizens. The stories were inspired by actual kids Sucheta met during her travels and the illustrations based on photographs she took. 

Sucheta is a three-time TEDx speaker on cultural intelligence through travel, following your passion, and traveling in silence. She has traveled to 120 countries across all seven continents, but she has had Georgia her home base since 1997. 

Sucheta was named “Georgia’s 40 Under 40” by Georgia Trend and Georgia State University. She was named “One of The Most Influential Cultural Bloggers in the World” by the Foundation of Florence, and has been a finalist for the Atlanta Press Club’s “Award of Excellence” and “Georgia’s Author of The Year.” 

Sucheta lives in Smyrna with her husband and her celebrity cat, Beato.