CV

1954

Born in Toronto

1976-83

Journalist for the Lakeland Ledger and the Tampa Tribune

1983

Journalism masters

1986-1989

Lived and worked with homeless women in Soho at the House of St Barnabas

2003-2017

Chair of the board at The Rights Practice

2004-2017

Communications manager at NGOs including The Rainforest Foundation

2014

Nellie Bly trip

2019

Churchill Fellowship for work with refugees

2021

Release of Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World

up the blog, that would be it. But oh no, Nellie Bly was not through with me. I’ve been able to do talks and we put together the Heritage of Women in Exploration conference – which I believe is the first conference like that ever held at the Royal Geographical Society. I’m also a founding trustee of the Women’s Adventure Expo – a hub for women adventurers. It’s really just about letting people know what women have done and what they’re doing now. If you do what you always do, you get what you always got, so it’s about just getting out there, seeing the horizon.

One of my favourite sayings is ‘leap and the net will arrive’. I’m not leaping so much anymore. But I think if you put yourself out there, things happen.