Tricia Szulewski

Tricia Szulewski, RoadBike's Art Director/Staff Writer has been with the magazine since 1999, four years after taking the MSF class to learn to ride motorcycles. With a degree from F.I.T. in graphic design and an avid writer and rider, she considers herself extremely lucky to be able to spend her days combining her favorite passions: art and motorcycles. Trish's job as RoadBike's art director entails setting up photo shoots, retouching images, planning issues and creating layouts, but, as an enthusiast, she also spends a good amount of time researching and writing product reviews, new bike reviews, and motorcycle tour stories. As the only female rider on RoadBike's staff, she makes a special effort to maintain the women rider's perspective in each issue. Trish became an MSF instructor in 2008 so she can share her passion while passing on some of the important tools necessary to keep riders safe.

Lesley Gering Lesley Gering is a Mother, Motorcyclist, Journalist, Photographer and an award winning Emily Carr Artist Graduate. Her work has been published in over fifty publications worldwide and her photogra-phy and writing have been published in over a dozen motorcycle magazines internationally. Her “Women and the Art of Motorcycles” photographic series became a calendar with proceeds donated to Breast Cancer research.

Lesley's fascination with the machine led her to take courses where she completely dismantled and reassembled numerous motorcycles. Once she began these projects, sponsors appeared, she began test-riding and writing reviews for motorcycle magazines around the globe. Not only is she an expert rider, she knows how to convey this zeal for mechanics and the art of riding into her life.

Lesley Gering‟s unique multifaceted approach, her courage to be true to herself and her ability to inspire others evolve from the combi-nation of her passions - art and motorcycling.

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Genevieve Schmitt

Genevieve Schmitt is the leading expert on the subject of women and motorcycling. Over the years she has inspired thousands of women to ride their own motorcycle through her articles and speeches. Her company, Solitude Ranch Communications, publishes WomenRidersNow.com, an online magazine about women and motorcycling. It also publishes TrikeRidersNow.com capitalizing on that booming market. Genevieve is also the Women‟s POV Editor for American Iron magazine writing a monthly column as well as feature stories. In addition to her journalism and publishing work, Genevieve consults with powersports companies on how to market and sell motorcycles and products to the female customer.

Genevieve is a trained professional journalist having started her career in broadcast journalism as a producer working for Good Morning America, E! Entertainment Television, and EXTRA. She then transitioned to the front of the camera working as an on air correspondent for Speed Channel and the Outdoor Life Network (now Versus). She has been working in the motorcycling industry since 1993 and is recognized as a leader in motorcycling journalism focusing on the area of women. In 2001, she was inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame for her leadership and journalism work. Genevieve has been quoted in many newspaper and magazine articles including The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune. She has also appeared in several TV documentaries about motorcycling. Genevieve has been riding a motorcycle since 1990 and currently owns a 2008 Harley-Davidson Street Glide and a 1994 Harley-Davidson Dyna Low Rider.

Christa Neuhauser

Christa Neuhauser, the publisher of RoadRUNNER magazine, has been a motorcycle enthusiast for years. Motorcycling is not only her passion but also her profession. After relocating from Austria, RoadRUNNER offered her the perfect platform to share her passion with other motorcyclists. The fascination with motorcycling runs in the family, and her sons Florian and Manuel (both in their mid twenties) are also active members of magazine‟s team.

RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel magazine is a bi-monthly magazine founded in 2001, featuring tours all over North America.

Pamela Collins

When Pam began her professional journalism career as a radio/television reporter never did she realize her subject matter one day would veer from mundane political and local new beats to writing about the exciting two-wheeled lifestyle. But that‟s because this self-professed news junkie/bookworm never envisioned herself on a motorcycle.

However, after learning to ride thirteen years ago, Pam realized not only did motorcycling provide her with fascinating, exciting personal joys and experiences, but compelling story ideas as well. “It seemed a story appeared around every curve, and I just couldn‟t ignore the reporter in me saying „I have to write about this.‟”

So she did, and has, for the last twelve years, covering topics ranging from travel stories to motorcycle and gear reviews to personality profiles. Pam writes for a number of publications including the nationally-circulated Roadbike magazine, Backroads magazine, Keystone Motorcycle Press, a regional magazine covering motorcycling in her home state of Pennsylvania, WomenRidersNow.com, and others. Pam and her husband Tim (who introduced her to motorcycling) also own and manage real estate ventures in Pennsylvania and Florida. “I appreciate my time on a motorcycle,” Pam says. “Every mile counted on my odometer means a mile that I haven‟t sleepwalked though…I‟ve truly experienced it, and that‟s a gift.”

Debbie is the Production Manager at Thunder Press, the premier Harley-Davidson and American Motorcycle newspaper. Although she wasn‟t a rider when she started with the paper 17 years ago, she had been riding on the back of her husband‟s bike since their first date in 1978. She went solo in ‟94 when she bought a 1972 250 two-stroke Aermacchi Harley.

She currently rides a 1987 Harley-Davidson FXRC, a 1997 Buell M2 Cyclone and a 2006 Harley-Davidson Road Glide. Clearly a Harley aficionado, Debbie covers related events, tests products, and road-tests bikes. “I really enjoy doing [these events] and can‟t wait to do more,” she says.

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Liz Jansen

Liz is an entrepreneur, adventurer, writer – and rider extraordinaire. In 2003, she founded Trillium Motorcycle Tours & Events to create experiences that instill a sense of adventure, freedom and community while traveling the transformative road to personal and professional leadership. Since 2006 she has served with the Motorcyclists Confederation of Canada, currently as Board Chair. She was a member of the Advisory Council for the American Motorcyclist Association‟s 2009 International Women Riders Conference and organized Canada‟s first similar event in 2010. In addition to being a certified Senior Motorcycle Instructor, Liz has worked with individuals, corporate clients, manufacturers, retailers, provincial and regional tourism associations. She is a contributing writer to the Toronto Star and Ontario Tourism motorcycle touring website. Her expertise has been sought for television and radio interviews and magazine and newspaper articles.

Kristi Martel

Kristi Martel is no stranger to Canada. Her mother grew up in Milton, Ontario, her sister lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and Kristi has spent many summers traveling and camping throughout the country.

After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in International Relations and a minor in Advertising, Kristi pursued a career in advertising. Inspired by a motorsports client, she learned to ride motorcycles in her mid-twenties. In a handful of years she became a motorcycle road racer, and won an amateur championship in her first full race season.

As an instructor for the California Superbike School Kristi shares her love for high-performance motorcycle riding with students throughout the United States, and as far abroad as Guam. Kristi currently writes for Motorcyclist Magazine, the second-largest motorcycle magazine in the United States.

Always up for a challenge, Kristi currently attends law school in Pennsylvania. She looks forward to applying her legal knowledge to the motorsports industry upon graduation.