While working at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Harris realized that while his and other think-tanks produced incredible ideas that the public would benefit from consuming, there were no provisions for communicating this information effectively to laypersons. Ultimately, he considers this to have been a positive outcome, as it gave him the chance to really think about what he wanted to do in life. Foreign Service, but failed the notoriously difficult qualifying exam. Initially, Harris planned to join the U.S. “Something sort of ignited in me,” he says, describing this sudden awakening of interest in travel as a “sleeping dragon.” This partially influenced his decision to major in International Relations. He didn’t leave the United States for the first time until he was eighteen years old. Harris grew up five hours from the nearest airport. The Birth of His Journalistic Niche and Inspiration Behind “Borders” In an interview with Peter Vanham, author of “Before I Was CEO,” Harris discussed the motivations and philosophies that helped him expand his love for visual communication into an innovative travel company. That’s my natural habitat,” Harris resoundingly confirmed when asked about his plans in a post-COVID world. “I am absolutely planning on going back to on-the-ground reporting. Now fully vaccinated, he is ready to pick up where he left off. Luckily for Harris, the popularity of his personal channel soared over the last year, which helped support his new venture. “My work turned really towards… my journalistic voice… how I could still tell stories and get creative without the tool of actually going and interacting with the places I’m telling stories about,” he explained. After officially launching Bright Trip in January 2020, an inauspicious time for travel startups, Harris was forced to re-think his strategies. His revolutionary travel company, Bright Trip, which was founded in 2019, survived the pandemic and is already in collaboration with Lonely Planet. In addition to his six years at Vox, as well as his wildly successful YouTube channel, Harris is also an entrepreneur. From there, he and his wife, Iz-also a talented filmmaker with her own successful YouTube channel-traveled the world, often in the company of their two young children, producing extraordinary content that take viewers to all corners of the globe.
Harris’s first trip for “Borders” was to Cuba, a venture he planned and carried out alone. Just seven minutes before his presentation began, filmmaker and journalist Johnny Harris reached one million subscribers on his YouTube channel-another in a long line of extraordinary achievements that also include two Emmy nominations for his work on Vox.com’s web series, “Borders.”
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