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Amy Westervelt

Amy Westervelt

Contributing Travel Writer |  Conde Nast Traveler

Amy Westervelt has written articles for Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Executive Traveler, as well as guides for Wallpaper, Fodor’s and DK. In addition to covering travel, Amy has spent several years covering environmental issues, including a three-year stint as a business reporter with a focus on sustainability. She is currently the managing editor of the Earth Island Journal.

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An interview with Kay Taylor, Director of Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC)

By Amy Westervelt, April 6, 2011 at 3:39pm
The nonprofit Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer does amazing work, traveling to developing countries to set medical clinics up with the training and equipment they need to conduct screenings for and treatment of cervical cancer. The organization works throughout Africa, Central America and Latin America and has recently begun working in India as well to provide screenings that would otherwise not be possible. Read full post >>
 

Interview with Steven Greenwood

By Amy Westervelt, March 8, 2011 at 7:52pm
Steven Greenwood has every right to brag. After all, he has an MBA from Harvard, he worked a stint as a McKinsey consultant, and he served as VP of drop.io, the insanely successful creative collaboration site picked up by Facebook last year. But for Greenwood, the secret to his success -- and to successful business communication in general -- is authenticity. “It sounds simple, but I think it all comes back to that: Be yourself, care about the people you’re interacting with, and build trust.” Read full post >>
 

A Trip with Sanaa Hyder, Founder Of ZH Collection

By Amy Westervelt, March 7, 2011 at 12:52pm
Sanaa Hyder is Creator and Artist behind ZH Collection, a line of handbags. She is also a recipient of a British Airways Business Opportunity Grant. Being a winner of this contest has helped her take her business worldwide and enables her to show her concepts in person. In this video blog, we follow her on a trip to India to visit her manufacturer. Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Sheila Coates, Founder and CEO, Be Your Own Brand, Los Angeles, California

By Amy Westervelt, February 16, 2011 at 10:24pm
During her successful career in the music business, where she worked with everyone from Janet Jackson to Sean Combs, Sheila P. Coates learned a key lesson: Everyone has a brand. Coates turned that lesson into the platform of her new business, Be Your Own Brand, a firm that focuses on helping individuals define, hone and project their own personal brands.Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Richard E. (Rory) Walck, Founder and President of Global Financial Analytics LLC

By Amy Westervelt, January 25, 2011 at 11:22pm
Richard E. (Rory) Walck, founder and president of Global Financial Analytics LLC, is in one of those businesses where face-to-face meetings are absolutely crucial. Walck’s firm provides financial consulting, analysis and expert witness testimony in domestic and international arbitration and litigation. Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Mindell Siedlin, Founder of Seidlin Consulting

By Amy Westervelt, January 12, 2011 at 12:03am
After graduating from Harvard medical school, Mindell “Mindy” Seidlin went on to become an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU and Director of the AIDS program at Bellevue Hospital. She held those positions for seven years before transitioning into clinical development work for a number of pharmaceutical companies.Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Sanaa Hyder, Creator and Artist, ZH Collection

By Amy Westervelt, December 15, 2010 at 4:58pm
Sanaa Hyder is Creator and Artist behind ZH Collection, a line of handbags. She is also a recipient of the 2009 British Airways Business Opportunity Grant. Being a winner of the BA Face of Opportunity contest has helped her take her business worldwide and enables her to show her concepts in person.Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Alexa Andrzejewski, Co-founder of Foodspotting.com

By Amy Westervelt, December 7, 2010 at 10:15pm
When Alexa Andrzejewski returned from a trip to Japan a few years ago she was eager to see if any of the Japanese restaurants in her hometown of San Francisco offered the great dishes she’d discovered on her trip. Alas, she found that it was next to impossible to figure that out without going to every restaurant and seeing for herself. The idea for Foodspotting, which Andrzejewski describes as “a field guide to food,” was born.Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Steve Youngblood

By Amy Westervelt, November 30, 2010 at 3:57pm
Steve Youngblood started his career in banking, and thought he’d work for a bank forever. But after a few years in the trenches, he wasn’t so sold on the idea. He got a job with a software company and has been in the software business for the 23 years since.Read full post >>
 

An Interview with Cindy Gallop, Consultant and Entrepreneur

By Amy Westervelt, November 23, 2010 at 8:23pm
Cindy Gallop's background is brand building, marketing and advertising. She started up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year.Read full post >>