Kim Westerman
City Expert
Kim Westerman has been a freelance travel, food, and wine writer and editor for the past 15 years. Her work has been published in the New York Times, TASTE Magazine, CondeNet, Epicurious, Fodor's Travel Guides, Through Traveler, and Moon Metro Guides. In addition to helping travelers navigate their way around Tuscon as the Home&Abroad Tuscon City Expert, she is currently finishing a book on Rome for SparkNotes (a Barnes & Noble imprint). Kim has also written a book-length text of Moon Metro Rome for Avalon Travel, published in 2003, and has a travel guide on Tucson forthcoming from The Countryman Press (Great Destinations series), a division of W.W. Norton.
In addition to her freelance work, Kim reviewed restaurants for the Arizona Daily Star for four years, and was a contributing writer and editor to Fodor's Gold Guides (to both Arizona and Hawai’i) for five years. Online clips of her work are available at www.throughtraveler.com. Kim is a professional photographer as well, and her images have been published in TASTE Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Through Traveler. She’ll be producing all of the photography for Great Destinations: Tucson, forthcoming Fall 2007.
Her goal as writer, she says, “is to reflect my experiences in clear, concise prose, and to know my audience, providing them with the tools they need to make informed travel choices.”
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Jan Christensen
Photographer
Jan Christensen is a freelance photographer and videographer. She took her first photograph (at a very young age) of the television screen when the Beatles were on The Ed Sullivan Show. From the moment she looked through that ”brand new” Brownie camera she was hooked and has been seeing the world through a lens ever since.
Jan lived in Seattle for many years and made her living in the corporate world where she built and managed call centers; first for a major airline, followed by a large family owned retailer, and last, a rather well-known coffee company. Not too long ago, she traded in her “black is always appropriate” shoes for a large collection of colored flip flops, and along with her husband, Mark, moved to the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona. She works from home, doing photography and video, waiting to be old enough to collect her retirement income. In between gigs, she loves to travel, read books, watch movies, cook, and occasionally play a frustrating round of golf.
You can see more of her work at imagemaxinc.com.
Super Hero: The Roadrunner. It’s a loony tune life!
Fave food: Dungeness Crab!! Dark chocolate. A really hot, really strong cup of black coffee made from freshly ground Ethiopian coffee beans.
Preferred Escapes: Any beach on any island anywhere (or, in a pinch, just a beach)!
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