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| | Meet the StaffPartners Account Managers - Laura Ecklund
- Angela Lehman
- Hailey McDonald
- Stephanie Moreland
- Jessi Stafford
- Steve Szczecina
- Amy Williams
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 Adventure Media is the brainchild of founder Nancy Harrison. Nancy only started adventuring at the age of 40 when she learned to ski, whitewater raft and horseback ride while living in Winter Park, Colorado. Moving to Wyoming gave her the opportunity to enjoy fly fishing, hiking and camping, sea kayaking, and many other nature-based activities. Adventure Media was formed in 1999. The Adventure Media Team includes several account managers and writers who support our clients with their special brand of enthusiasm. Nancy has two grown children and four grandsons, all of whom enjoy the outdoors - fishing, hiking, camping, water sports and snow sports. Nancy is a true Citizen of the West who has lived her entire life in the Rocky Mountain States. She has become an expert in her field of media relations and spends a good deal of her time each year teaching and lecturing on PR to groups such as The International Ecotourism Society, America Outdoors, the Adventure Travel World Summit and many state and regional conferences and international gatherings. Travel is Nancy's passion, as you can see by these photos. She spends part of each year on spectacular trips with clients. Nancy visits as many clients as possible to learn about their destinations and trips. Her motto is, “If you’re not living on the edge; you’re taking up too much space!” |  |  |
|  | Jim Steiner of Niwot, CO is a partner of Adventure Media. Jim founded and owned a successful manufacturing company in Southern California for 11 years. After selling the California business, Jim moved back to his childhood home in Colorado where he began his search for new business opportunities. Adventure Media appealed to Jim for a number of reasons. Most important were the similar values shared with Founder, Nancy Harrison which includes delivering good promotional value at a reasonable cost and the unique and varied clientele. Jim joined the team in April 2009. In his spare time, Jim enjoys skiing with his family, fly fishing and, of course, adventure travel. |
|  | Laura Ecklund lives in San Diego, California with her husband Eric and three children - Lars, Annika and Hans. She has lived in all four time zones within the United States- growing up in Minnesota to college in Colorado to a brief one year stint in New York City to finally finding home in beautiful California. She loves San Diego so this is where she will stay! In addition to working for Adventure Media, Laura is a freelance writer and stay-at-home Mom that is very actively involved in the families activities. Before having children she worked in the travel industry for many years and has traveled extensively throughout the world. Her passion is travel and writing - which makes working at Adventure Media a perfect fit! She enjoys working as both the Editor and an Account Manager at Adventure Media. |
| | | Paul and Angela Lehman operate as a team for Adventure Media. Both working journalists with a background in the travel and hospitality industries. In 2006, they packed up their home of 25 years and together with Claudius, their Bengal cat, moved from Connecticut to New Mexico to start a new life.
Angela also traveled the world for a well known group travel company based in Washington DC, before becoming sales and marketing manager for Hilton International based in London, a position she held for 20 years, where she met her husband and where their son Mark was born. They returned to the US, where she became Conference Manager for General Electric and upon retirement, joined her husband's PR company. She also has written extensively for a national newspaper group plus magazines on features and food, with a weekly restaurant column that was very popular. She is currently re-establishing her writing career for local publications. For Adventure Media, Angela handles all the day-to-day client contacts, writing and computer transactions along with the team.
Paul traveled all over the world for the US Government's Commerce Department on the startup of the "Visit USA." initiative at a time when foreigners were being encouraged to visit our country. After he became marketing director for the UK hospitality group, the Rank Organization where he met his wife Angela in London. He started his own PR company, Paul Lehman Associates, specializing in travel and hospitality accounts, which he continues today. With a journalism degree from NYU, Paul has written extensively on theater, film and travel for a national newspaper group, and many magazines in the northeast. He is starting a new career writing for publications in the southwest. For Adventure Media, Paul researches, creates and edits his partner's work. |
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|  | Stephanie Moreland is a freelance writer and public relations specialist based in Houston, Texas. After spending years working in various management positions and obtaining a bachelor's degree in Business Management, she took a trip to Europe that renewed her passion for writing, and subsequently crossed over to writing and Public Relations for the travel industry. She is a regular contributor to several publications, and has had extensive freelance marketing, public relations, business, and travel writing experience. Brought up in a family where travel was a life requirement, Stephanie began traveling before she could walk.  She has visited destinations throughout the US, and has traveled to Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti, Canada, Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany, and South Africa. The highlight of her travel experience was a four month volunteer vacation in Italy that included living in Rome and exploring travel destinations in a responsible, economic, and personally fulfilling way. Stephanie has an incurable case of wanderlust, and when she is not reading about travel, writing about it, or working with people in the travel industry, she is planning her next personal journey. Visit Stephanie's website at www.morelandwrites.com |
|  Jessi Stafford is a Colorado native and fellow victim of the wanderlust that takes hold after a surprise bite from the travel bug. Since high school, she has spent summers backpacking in England, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic and Thailand, among others. She has a B.A. in Technical Journalism and Communications with a minor in English from Colorado State University. In college, when Jessi wasn’t experiencing the many corners of the world, she was ardently working at the daily student newspaper as the news managing editor. She was also a reporter at The Fort Collins Weekly and had an internship at United Way of Larimer County.
While her primary passion is adventure travel, writing plays a very close second. She also spends her free time reading, hiking, running, crafting, going to concerts, roaming book stores and spending time with friends and family. And, there will always be a special place in her heart for the Sunday New York Times, forever paired with a steaming cup of low-grade coffee (some college habits never die). | |
From a very early age Amy Williams knew two things: first, she would dive with great white sharks and second, she needed to travel the world. Travel genes flow through her DNA. As a child she watched her mother regularly return from world adventures and lovingly looked at photos of her grandparents cruising around Egypt on camels. She covered much of the United States before entering college and was then ready to take on the world.  Four years later she walked away from the University of California Santa Cruz with a B.A. in History of Art and Visual Culture and education in world traveling. Her travel genes finally propelled her to Kleinsbaai, South Africa and the realization of her first dream in 2008. Currently residing in Fort Collins, CO with her husband and pup, Amy looks forward to following where the wind will take her next.
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