Ross Borden: Publisher, Co-Founder of Matador
After a year of climbing in South America and living in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Ross suddenly found himself in a cubicle in Redwood Shores, CA, commuting an hour each direction to a job he hated, selling database software. It was from that cubicle that he launched the first Matador site in late September of 2006. Two months later he’d quit the job to pursue Matador full time, building on his vision of an independent media company driven by innovation and the energy of passionate travelers from around the globe. His favorite destinations in 2010 were Morondava, Cape Town, Dominical, Haines, Black Rock City and Big Sky. Ross has also lived in Spain and Kenya and currently resides in his native San Francisco.
David Page: Editor-in-Chief
David has run sled dogs into the Maroon Bells, seined for salmon off the Kenai, hunted T-Rex eggs in Patagonia, and traveled from the Algerian Sahara to Paris in the back of a Belgian floral delivery van. A graduate of the writing program at UC Irvine, he’s written features for the LA Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, Ski Journal, Backcountry, and The New York Times. His book on Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada has won two Best Guidebook awards and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and is now in its second printing. He lives in Mammoth Lakes, CA, at 8300 feet above sea level, with his wife, his two boys, and a canine avatar of the Aztec god Xolotl.
Linda Cobb: Creative Director
Linda is a former Warner Bros. creative exec who now runs her own shop, Bumpercrop Studio, from Mammoth Lakes, CA. She’s threaded crevasses on Mont Blanc, swum with sharks off the Galapagos, floated alone in the Andaman Sea at night, and carried out an important bartending mission in Patong, Phuket. When she’s not crafting the look and feel of BETA, or putting together the next issue of GRAMMY magazine, or designing album packaging for the likes of Chris Isaak or Dwight Yoakam, she’s probably on the hill testing next year’s snowboard boots for Burton.
David Miller: Senior Editor
David’s exploits include wintertime thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail and surf trips with no gear except a cookpot. He is senior editor of Matador, winner of a 2010 Lowell Thomas award for travel journalism, and the founding editor of The Traveler’s Notebook. Also a fiction writer and poet, he has work forthcoming in the Hint Fiction Anthology (W.W. Norton, 2010) and Before We Have Nowhere to Stand (Lost Horse, 2011). He lives with his wife and daughter in Patagonia, Argentina, and works summers as a safety kayaker.
Cody Forest Doucette: Photo Editor
Cody was born in the heartland of Wisconsin, raised in the mountains of Idaho and educated on the beaches of California at UCSB. Working with his twin brother, writer Kitt Doucette, he’s spent the past 6 years circling the globe to capture both the beauty of the natural world and the complexity of the human condition in the 21st century, from the arctic ice of Svalbard to the Jungles of Sumba, from the 5-star high life of St. Moritz to the torrid squalor of the tent cities in Port au Prince. His work has been featured in Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, Powder, Surfer, The Surfers Journal, and many other publications.
Adam Baer: Editor-at-Large
Adam is a former NPR producer and Travel + Leisure correspondent currently living in Los Angeles. Born and raised in New York, Adam has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, New Republic, Atlantic, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Men’s Journal, GQ, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. Adam is also founding editor-at-large and travel editor at The Faster Times. Adam’s travels have taken him from treacherous 10-course dinners at Sicilian tourist farms to the shark infested waters of the Tahitian InterContinental’s infinity pool, but he has also been known to play it safe with low-key respites in Gaza and restorative wind-sprint “tours” through the loveliest Tijuana tunnels. Devoted to taking intelligent risks, Adam also writes fiction and screenplays, and believes that, to turn the economy around, America must re-invest in a diverse array of print magazines and traditional typewriters.
Anna Brones: Global Distribution Architect
Anna is a writer, artist and media strategist with a love for good adventures, sustainable design and the outdoors. She has lived in Sweden, France, Guadeloupe, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she co-owns Under Solen Media. To fuel her busy days, she believes in the power of early morning bike rides, a shared bottle of red wine, and really good dark chocolate. She’s also known to slip into Swedish when she smells fresh coffee and cardamom, and is perfectly aware that her need to always pronounce French words with a French accent comes off as pretentious. A Matador member from its start-up days, Anna writes about travel, food, and design.
Emily Nuchols: Global Distribution Architect
An eco-warrior obsessed with traveling and promoting conservation, Emily has spent over a decade working in the environmental and non-profit worlds, and most recently turned that passion into building her firm, Under Solen Media. Armed with a degree in Environmental Journalism, she’s worked on backcountry photo shoots to document wildlife, kayaked to support climate change legislation, and lobbied in DC to restore free-flowing rivers. When she’s not talking or writing about the environment, she’s out exploring it, and is known to seek out places where she can get in a good morning yoga session or trail run. She currently resides in her adopted hometown of Portland, Oregon, where she can often be found riding around on her gold bike wheels and dreaming about sailing in Mexico.
Adam Roy: Managing Editor
Born and raised in Chicago, Adam Roy has dived hundred-year-old
shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, trekked solo through the Argentine
sierra, and crossed the world’s third-highest motorable mountain pass
in a jeep. Adam began writing professionally at the age of 17, and has
had work published in Outside Online, Longshot, and Adventure Travel.
He is editor of Matador Sports. Check out his blog at illadvisedadventures.com.
Nick Rowlands: Contributing Editor
Nick has climbed the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda, stayed with a rickshaw driver in the slums of New Delhi, hitched around Syria, and hiked the Camino Frances to Santiago de Compostela. He’s been based in Cairo since 2006, working as a tour leader in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as an EFL teacher for the British Council, and as the managing editor of a Cairo music, dining and culture guide. He’s written for the National Geographic intelligent travel blog and The Observer Magazine in Lebanon, and is currently Co-Editor of Matador Life, Cairo Local Expert for NileGuide, and a regular freelancer for Trazzler. You can follow his sun-crazed hallucinations on his blog, Delicious Chaos, or catch him on Twitter.
Carlo Alcos: Language & Facts Editor
Carlo came perilously close to being shackled in golden handcuffs while working 11 years in IT for a large Canadian telecom company. He left Vancouver in 2007 and has traveled around Europe in a campervan, trained across Siberia, been lost in the Mongolian steppe, and put up with spitting on Chinese trains. He also lived in Melbourne for two years and spent time in New York City and Eastern Canada. He currently resides in Nelson, BC, where much of his time is spent editing Brave New Traveler, working on his blog Vagabonderz.com, and going to yoga.
Hal Amen: Language & Facts Editor
Hal’s been battling dangling participles since 2004, when he was hired as a temp grader by a standardized testing company and within two months wound up on the final-review QA team. Since then, he’s worked as a writer/editor for Korean educational publishers, both in Seoul and as a freelancer. He recently co-authored Korean for Beginners and spends most of his time editing Matador Trips, drinking IPA, and helping his wife renovate their new home in Austin, TX.
Kate Sedgwick: Language & Facts Editor
Kate’s latest adventure took her to Copiapó, Chile, where she hitchhiked with a clown and sneaked past a press barrier in order to document the mine rescue. Her first edits were press releases and artist statements for Pyro Gallery in Louisville, KY. After becoming a Buenos Aires expat, she was hired as a contributing editor to Matador Nights where she has distilled volumes of text and published across the Network. A photographer, writer, and English teacher, she’s also a volunteer photography instructor with Ojo de Pez. She blogs at yesthereissuchathingasastupidquestion.com/.
Sarah Park: Subscriptions Ninja
Trading one vacation destination for another, Sarah moved from San Diego to Mammoth Lakes CA in 2008. She believes in the power of snowboard breaks, color-coded labels, and very black coffee. When she’s not elaborately planning your next ski or snowboard trip, finding you the answers to your project’s most pressing problems, or just helping you change your mailing address, Sarah can be found standardizing the file names on her laptop with cyborg-like precision.
Ian MacKenzie: Tech Consultant
Ian is the founding editor of Brave New Traveler. Aside from writing, designing, and filmmaking, he spends his time exploring the fundamental nature of existence and wishing he did more backpacking.
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Julie Schwietert Collazo: Managing Editor, Matador Network
Julie is lead editor on Matador’s Change and Pulse blogs, and lead faculty member of MatadorU’s travel writing program. She’s contributed to Fodor’s Puerto Rico and Fodor’s Caribbean, and has written city guides for AOL Travel (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Sherman’s Travel (Mexico City), Gayot (Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico), TravelMuse (Havana and Mexico City), and USA Today. Her writing and photography have appeared in a variety of print pubs, including the in-flight magazines of Martinair and Singapore Airlines, Latina Magazine, and DISCOVER.
Lola Akinmade: Editor, Matador Goods
Lola is a writer and photographer whose credits include National Geographic Traveler, BBC, Vogue, Fodors.com, Forbes Traveler, Sherman’s Travel, Travel Channel’s World Hum, AFAR, United Airlines’ Hemispheres, and others. Her travel photography has received numerous accolades. She contributes as a photojournalist to NGOs such as the International Red Cross, and also serves as an instructor for MatadorU. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sarah Menkedick: Editor, Glimpse.org
Sarah is based in Oaxaca, Mexico, and is the managing editor of Glimpse.org. Her writing has appeared in print and online publications, including Literary Traveler, Abroad View magazine, and National Geographic Glimpse. She has traveled, lived, and taught on five continents, and is constantly in pursuit of spicy food, dark beer, and new places to run. Keep up with her on her blog.
Josh Johnson: Editor, Matador TV
Joshua Johnson, aka Joshywashington, is a Seattle-based adventurer with a penchant for misty mountains and black coffee. Aside from his video work, he’s also contributed scores of stories and essays to The Travelers Notebook. Connect with him on Twitter, Youtube, and on his website, travelmedianinja.com
Michelle Schusterman: Associate Editor, Matador Goods
Michelle is a freelance writer, steel pannist, city trekker, amateur foodie and wannabe Iron Chef. After living abroad in Salvador and Seoul, her love of alliteration brought her to Seattle, where she currently resides with her husband and chocolate lab. Michelle is addicted to coffee and loves trying new food, the spicier the better.
Leigh Shulman: Editor, Matador Life
Leigh moves around a lot. She’s lived in five countries and spent the last three years traveling with her husband Noah and daughter Lila. For now, she’s finding home in Salta, Argentina where she writes, teaches and is taking a deep breath before the next move. You can read more about her travels on her blog.
Juliane Huang: Contributing Editor
Juliane currently resides in her native California, serving as a medic in a community clinic and writing for Matador. As a child of immigrant parents, she has a strong, vested interest in stories of people experiencing life through different cultures. Follow her writing on julianehuang.com.
Candice Walsh: Associate Editor
Candice is a travel writer and blogger currently stationed in St. John’s, Newfoundland. When she’s not shooting whiskey and hitting on men, she’s eating nachos and dreaming about her next big adventure. Check out her blog, Candice Does The World.
Paul Sullivan: Editor At Large
Paul is a freelance writer, author and photographer covering music, travel and culture. His work has been published in The Guardian, The Independent, Intelligent Life, National Geographic Music and more, and he has written/photographed several guidebooks for Time Out, HG2, Cool Camping and others. He currently lives in Berlin, where he runs the Slow Travel Berlin website, flirts with history and fiction and continuously tells jokes no one gets.
Heather Carreiro: Editor, Matador Abroad
Heather is a secondary English and ESL teacher who has lived in Morocco and Pakistan. She enjoys jamming on the bass, haggling over saris in dusty markets and cross-country jumping on horseback. Currently she’s a grad student attempting to wrap her tongue around Middle English, analyze Salman Rushdie novels and eat enough to make her Portuguese mother-in-law happy. Learn more on her blog at ExpatHeather.com.
Kristin Conard: Associate Editor, Matador Nights
Kristin is a writing instructor in New Jersey by way of Kansas, New Mexico and England. As a child, she wanted to be a librarian, because she thought the librarian was the one who got to write all the books in the library. The obsession abides, and when she’s not grading papers and lesson planning, she’s working on a collection of essays and plotting her next trip. Read about her travels and random thoughts at kristin5683.wordpress.com.
Eileen Smith: Editor at Large
Eileen is from Brooklyn, NY and currently lives, breathes, and works in Santiago, Chile where she cycles, writes, edits, translates and photographs anything that will stand still, or not. She travels when she can and admits to frequent overpacking and other quirks on her blog, bearshapedsphere.
Andy Hayes: Twitter & Facebook Ninja
Andy is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he’s not hanging out with the Twitterati or lining up ammunition for the Matador Twitter account, he’s helping small businesses in travel & tourism understand blogging and social media. He also writes for travel blogs and magazines, including his own, Sharing Travel Experiences.
Lindsay Clark: Intern, MatadorTV
Lindsay has spent the last three years circumnavigating the world three times, hoping to learn constantly by throwing herself into difficult and thrilling situations. She likes to dance, gives herself high fives, and thinks education is pretty darn important. She’s a producer and photographer for a travel-focused children’s charity, ProjectExplorer.org. Follow her blog at nomadderwhere.com
Morgan DeBoer: Intern
Morgan works for a non-profit in San Diego where she writes, hikes, paints, and watches a lot of I Love Lucy. She writes restaurant reviews for URBANISTguide.com.
Benita Hussain: Editorial Intern & Frequent Contributor
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Benita is a former child actress turned lawyer who began freelance writing full time after returning home from a 7-month round-the-world trip. With degrees from Cornell University and Fordham Law School, she’s passionate about outdoor adventure, environmental, and social justice topics. Check out her blog The Hussainity Defense and yoga website benitasana.
Anne Merritt: Intern
Anne has lived in Canada, Europe, and Asia, where she teaches ESL and writes. She is a haggler, hiker, food adventurer and sunscreen fanatic. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, GoOverseas.com, and The Compass. She is currently living and working in South Korea.
Abbie Mood: Intern
Abbie Mood is a freelance writer and preschool Special Ed. teacher who spends her vacations experiencing as much of the world as possible. Check out her blog at SneakersAndSuitcases.com.
Daniel Nahabedian: Intern
After trekking in Iceland without water under the Northern Lights, roadtrippin’ in Ireland, and walking 2000 kilometers from France to Spain, Daniel came to the conclusion it was better traveling than slowly dying in his HR cubicle. He left his job in 2009 to start a round-the-world journey and to follow his true passion: Photography. He is currently living in Thailand and working on his Travel Photoblog Canvas of Light.
Mary Richardson: Intern, Abroad
Mary is a freelance writer, ESL teacher, and tour guide. She currently uses Okinawa, Japan as her home base for exploring and eating her way around the world. Check out her travel stories and advice at World Curious Traveler.
Matt Scott: Intern
Matt has spent the majority of his adult life traveling and working abroad. His writing and photos have appeared in publications around the world, both online and in print. Originally from the UK, Matt now lives in Paris where he works as a tour guide and trip leader for an active travel company. His blog is The World Is Too Big.
Richard Stupart: Intern
Richard lives and works in South Africa, exploring as often as possible the strange and unknown places that his continent is so rich in. What stories of far flung places and mischief he is able to trap and bring home are stuffed and mounted on his blog at www.wheretheroadgoes.com.
Jason Wire: Intern
Having parted ways with college life at Vanderbilt University, where he studied Creative Writing and Communications, Jason now teaches English in La Linea de la Concepción, Spain. He’s visited more countries in the past year than in all other years of his life combined (the previous number was zero). When he’s not traveling, teaching, or siphoning free wi-fi, he likes bourbon, headphones, and deep frying everything at least once. He’s from Evansville, Indiana.
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