Personal Bio: Lydia Dean was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1971 and later moved to the US where she graduated with honors from Geneseo State University. After several years of training in corporate executive recruiting she launched her own Executive Search firm specializiing in International placements for major insurance companies. She moved with her husband and family to Provence, France and began a luxury villa rental business. After years of extensive travel and living abroad she moved back to the US to launch Travel with Conscience with her husband - combining the love for business, travel, and social service work. Overview of Project: Travel with Conscience – Making philanthropy a part of the individual and corporate travel experience --Changing the Way we See the World. We offer customized travel services to individuals and companies in exotic locations around world, incorporating visits to social and conservation programs into custom travel itineraries. These visits provide opportunities for people and companies to share resources, skills and knowledge to productive outreach and conservation programs around the world as they travel. Trips planned by Travel with Conscience offer deeper more meaningful experiences in key travel destinations. Guests go beyond seeing the major sights of a region and develop a genuine appreciation for the area’s culture, history and heritage by personally interacting with the local population outside of the tourism industry. This illuminates the challenges facing the region and offers ready opportunities for travelers to personally channel their resources. It also offers local projects visibility and access to a vast network of resources.