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Victor Brian Rashid
Victor Brian Rashid (Peoria, Illinois, December 14th 1985) known as Brian Rashid, is a professional writer, entrepreneur and international bilingual Speaker from United States.

His most recent publication called "One American's Unexpected Love Letter to Uruguay during the Global Pandemic" got viral and got him on many interviews as CNN en Español.

Biography
Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. After, he lived 20 years between San Francisco and New York, while developing his personal business Brian Rashid Global. After spending some time in Latin America he fell in love with it's culture and decided to dedicate his life to help Latin people with social impact projects and created Uniendo las Américas in 2018, which was reviewed by the Entrepreneur Magazine.

Prior to launching his company 6 years ago, Brian was a speechwriter in Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Administration. He also holds a JD from the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. Now he lives between New York City and Latin America. Fluent in English and Spanish, Brian travels around the world for speaking.

Brian has also been a regular contributing writer at Forbes Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the Huffington Post.

He is the recipient of the United States Department of State’s prestigious Fulbright Program for a upcoming (2021) social impact project in Colombia to help a non profit organization that helps teenage mothers (victims of abuse).

He has delivered two TEDx talks, and gives an up close and personal look to life and how to live from your passion in a environment respectful way.

Letters to the World (Publications)
"I’m a writer who is imperfectly, yet optimistically, exploring and sharing a different way to live." - Brian Rashid

In 2015 Brian wrote "Why Everyone should live in New York City". First article for Forbes, about a city that had a big response from the audience and went viral.

In 2016 Brian flew to Armenia to write about his experience there with George Clooney during "The Aurora Prize And Hope In Armenia"

In 2020, after staying unexpectedly 10 months in Uruguay, because of the world pandemic he wrote a "One American's Unexpected Love Letter to Uruguay" that caught the attention of all the Uruguayans in and outside the country, and got the response from newspapers, radios and Tv Channels (National and International). His viral letter to Uruguay was also sheared in the national Newspapers "El País" and in got interviews in channels as Canal 10, Canal 4 and Canal 12 in Uruguay.

As a proud vegan, he's committed to keep writing to help people to connect with each other and the world beyond borders, colors, nationality or cultures.