Lucia Duarte – Coordinator

Lucia’s maxim during the first year of her Trufflepig tenure was ‘tread softly and wear a big smile’. That was probably less about adjusting to life in Canada from her native Argentina than simply because she’s a discreet and attentive person by nature. But now with a role that requires wrangling detail (and keeping our planners in line) from Kobe to Cape Town, she can no longer afford to tread so softly – and yet the big smile seems only to have broadened as she’s filled the boots of a bona fide trip planning trooper. We’re not fooled into thinking she’s all sweetness and light, however: the last person to stand up to her around a foosball table barely lived to tell the tale. And let me tell you, her empanada recipe is seriously good.

Joined Trufflepig: March 2022