We think these travelers and writers are the best
around in their fields.
They bring years of expertise as travelers and researchers
to GoNOMAD.com and we’re proud to have them.
Max Hartshorne
GoNOMAD Editorand owner
Max got his first editor's job at 21, when he helped start the Portland Chronicle in Maine.
He has worked in production, advertising sales, web design and editing for the past twenty-seven years, most recently at Transitions Abroad. His writing has been published in many newspapers and other publications including the Hartford and Valley Advocates, the UMass Press and Traveler's Tales Books.
GoNOMAD is a longtime dream come true, since after so many years he wanted to have his own forum for writers, travelers and photographers to share their amazing stories and provide information about places around the world. Now not only can he travel and write, but he serves up a mean latte in his GoNOMAD Cafe, the center of the travel website's universe.
Kent has been a travel writer for nine years and for more than a decade ran a travel agency in Arizona. Now he's returned to his roots by moving back to Cottekill, NY.
He writes a column for the Lincoln Eagle in upstate New York, and he is also a correspondent for California's largest travel radio show "Around the World with Arthur." He is currently working on an agented book entitled, Be Our Guest, tales of press trips. Kent brings an insider’s knowledge of the tricks of the trade to GoNOMAD.
Steve worked for newspapers and magazines in New England for many years and served as a information officer for the New Hampshire State Senate. He updates GoNOMAD's pages, adding new info and photos, and puts up the new stories we receive every day for the site. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts, with his daughter Sarah and their cat Dwight D. Eisenmeower.
Steve writes a blog called Armchair Travel about books he finds at flea markets and rummage sales.
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Joe Obeng
GoNOMAD
Webmaster
Joe grew up in Ghana and came to the U.S. in the early '90s to go to college. His skill at computer repair and web design keeps the website up and running. He previously worked as webmaster for Transitions Abroad Publishing. Joe designs many of the buttons and special features on the site, as well as developing travel websites for our clients.
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Cindy Bigras
Travel Writer
Cindy grew up in Vermont and received a B.S. from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. She studied and worked in Florence, Italy for three years. It was there that her love for all things Italian was born. She returns there as often as possible, and keeps her language skills sharp by watching Italian television daily.
Cindy is a stickler for detail and helps keep the stories on GoNOMAD free of errors and typos.
After 12 years of chasing news for CBS TV in Albany, New York, Sony Stark decided to quit the 'biz' and venture out on her own. She started a traveling video production company aptly named PilotGirl Productions and freelances for corporate, not-for-profit, and television networks. She's traveled extensively throughout the world shooting documentaries in Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, India, China, Taiwan and Japan. Her latest pursuit has her writing, shooting and editing a television show for GoNomad based on our growing pool of professional writers. Her latest acquisition, a Sony HD camera, has itself planted as a permanent fixture on her shoulder. When she's not working you'll find her scuba-diving Mauritius, skiing Big Sky or catching an independent flick at some funky art house.
Paul
is a photographer, writer and traveler based in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the principal photographer for the Valley Advocate and Preview magazine. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, N.Y. Times People magazine, The Boston Phoenix, the Village Voice, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonwealth, The Independent and many other publications around the world.
Lisa St. John is a high school English teacher and published poet.
Her love of travel inspires her work in both occupations. Teaching since 1996, Lisa’s enthusiasm for the classroom grows every year. Her poetry can be described as imagistic and honest. Lisa teaches because she loves to, and writes because she has to. From renting houses in San Miguel de Allende to taking cruises in the Galapagos Islands, Lisa lives by Baudelaire’s idea to "Always be a poet, even in prose".
Lauryn Axelrod GoNOMAD Founder
Lauryn Axelrod founded
GoNOMAD in 2000. Having traveled to over 45 countries since the age of 15, Lauryn is an incurable nomad. As a writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker, her work has appeared on PBS, in the NY Times, Videomaker Magazine, Transitions Abroad, Vermont Magazine and many others.
In June 2002, Lauryn and her son embarked on the GoNOMAD Around-The-World-Alternative Adventure. They covered many countries and you can read her dispatches in our family travel section. She now lives with her Kiwi husband whom she met on her journey on a farm in Northern Vermont.
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Do you love travel as much as we do? Want to join our team? GoNOMAD is looking for interns. You can learn web design, copyediting, magazine writing and website savvy.
Contact us and tell us why you'd like to come work with us.
Cindy Bigras
