About Global CommUnity

Our mission is to create a Global CommUnity first by fostering meaningful connections among family members and then by engaging families with other cultures, all while leaving a positive footprint at home and abroad.

Founders and Owners

"We wanted more purposeful trips for our own families. Something that reframed how our kids experience the world while they were having the time of their lives. That is how Global CommUnity was born. What we came up with was too good of a thing to keep to ourselves, so we started selling these trips to our clients."

Be the hero. Take your family on a Global CommUnity adventure that accomplishes all the parental must-dos while showcasing a destination in a way that is fun, relevant, and continually engaging, all the while fostering a broader worldview in your children.

Christie Holmes
Co-Founder/Managing Partner

Christie's passion for other cultures began when she was a child living abroad. International exposure as a child not only opened her eyes to the sights and sounds of other cultures but was the germination of her curiosity for others. As an adult she continues to explore culture, starting in her own home as a born yankee married to a 5th generation southerner. The fostering of a broader world view and exploring culture at home and abroad continues to grow in importance as she is raises teenage children of her own.

Based in Nashville, Christie began her career as an educator and artist. After completing a graduate program at Portfolio Center in Atlanta she began her successful career as a graphic designer owning a branding company that served the music and travel industries. To satiate her desire for travel, Christie made a career change in 2012 to full time travel consultant. At that time the germination of Global CommUnity began. Almost at the year mark of it’s official launch she has seen Global CommUnity raise a first round of capital and brought on an advisory board of top travel agencies in the US.

Her hope and desire is that Global CommUnity will allow people to learn how to engage culture at home and abroad as they connect with families and friends. Christie received a BA from Furman University 1990.

Keith Waldon
Co-Founder/Advising Partner

A native Texan, Keith Waldon began his career in luxury travel while still in college in Dallas as an intern for Rosewood Hotels. He continued his career there as a marketing manager after graduating from Southern Methodist University. Keith later spent 16 years as a senior executive for the international luxury travel network Virtuoso, where creating the Virtuoso brand and elevating the awareness of travel advisors were among his accomplishments. With 25 years in the luxury travel industry and a bit of a maverick Texan personality, Keith developed the Departure Lounge retail travel concept as a new way to engage travelers where they live. Based in Austin, Departure Lounge is now a franchise concept expanding to other cities.

Waldon has a 21-year-old daughter, who has traveled around the globe with him since she was born, and she is part of the inspiration of Global CommUnity.