Woni Spotts

Woni Spotts is an American woman who completed visiting every country and continent in the world in 2018. According to media studies scholar Tori Omega Arthur, consensus had developed after 2019 that Spotts was the first Black woman to do so. Her mother was a singer, dancer, and pianist and her father was a composer and arranger. a friend of her father's, offered her work as the subject of a documentary he was producing that involved significant overseas travel. By 1982, she had visited more than 160 countries. She resumed her travels in 2013 and completed them in 2018. Most of her travel was not documented via social media. Melan Magazine said Spotts' claim had "caught all of us by surprise, especially as our attention was on another Black woman who was on a very public mission to achieve this same feat."

Arthur wrote that consensus had developed after 2019 that Spotts was the first Black woman to visit every country.