Ernest White II is a producer, journalist, and keynote speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Presidio Pictures, a film, television, and digital media studio centering BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and senior/elder narratives. Ernest is also the executive producer and host of award-winning television travel docu-series FLY BROTHER with Ernest White II, currently airing in the United States on PBS stations and Create TV nationwide, and streaming worldwide at PBS(dot)org, Revry, and LGCY.
Ernest’s writing includes fiction, literary essay, and travel narrative, having been featured in Afar, Condé Nast Traveler, Time Out London, USA Today, Getaway, Skylife, Ebony, The Manifest-Station, The Bitter Southerner, Sinking City, Lakeview Journal, Matador Network, National Geographic Traveler’s Brazil and Bradt’s Tajikistan guidebooks, and at TravelChannel(dot)com. He is also nonfiction editor at Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, former assistant editor at Time Out São Paulo, and founding editor of digital men’s magazine Abernathy.
A passionate proponent of global community building and transformational travel, Ernest currently serves on the Condé Nast Traveler Advisory Board and the Board of Directors for the Impact Travel Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on sustainable travel, and as an advisor for Travel Unity, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing diversity within the travel and tourism industries.
Appearing on the Travel Channel television series Destination Showdown and Jamaica: Bared, as well as Gringo Trails, a documentary film about the dangers of mass tourism, Ernest also speaks to youth and adult audiences about the incomparable magic of travel. He holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Florida A&M University, an MFA in creative writing from the American University in Washington, and is currently earning his Certificate in the Business and Management of Entertainment from the University of California, Los Angeles.
A Florida native, Ernest’s obsessions include Thai curry, Brazilian samba, and Rita Hayworth.
