Tanya Shaffer

Uncategorized
Shaffer loves to travel and turn her travels into art. She has performed with the California Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Works, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, and other companies as well as…

Terry Ryan

Uncategorized
Terry Ryan, the sixth of Evelyn and Kelly Ryan’s ten children, is the author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words…

Terry Ryan

Uncategorized
Terry Ryan, the sixth of Evelyn and Kelly Ryan’s ten children, is the author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words…

Anneli Rufus

Uncategorized
Anneli is a UC Berkeley graduate, a journalist, a coauthor of five offbeat travel books with her husband Kristan Lawson (most recently “California Babylon” and “Weird Europe”), and an author…

Jeff Phillips

Uncategorized
Jeff Phillips is a Senior Travel Editor at Sunset Magazine and has written for a number of national magazines. His articles on travel and the environment have been recognized with…

Melba Patillo Beals

Uncategorized
MELBA PATILLO BEALS is a dynamic keynote speaker, coach, author, and a former news reporter for KQED and NBC-affiliate, KRON-TV with numerous appearances on Oprah Winfrey, Fresh Air, Good Morning…

Suzy Parker

Uncategorized
SUSAN (SUZY) PARKER, an award-winning freelance writer and  outdoor enthusiast, is the author of “Tumbling After: Pedaling  Like Crazy After Life Goes Downhill,” a memoir that tells the  story of…

Brad Newsham

Uncategorized
BRAD NEWSHAM has taken four global back-packing trips and turned two of them into memoirs: “All the Right Places” (Random House, 1989) and “Take Me With You” (Travelers Tales, 2000). …

Wes Nisker

Uncategorized
Wes “Scoop” Nisker is author of the enduring classic Crazy Wisdom  and the widely acclaimed Buddha’s Nature, and is Editor-in-Chief  of the Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind. For the past twenty-five …

Paul McHugh

Uncategorized
PAUL McHUGH, is the outdoors feature writer for the “San  Francisco Chronicle,” and the editor of “Wild Places: 20 Journeys  into the American Outdoors” (Foghorn Press, 1996), a book about …