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The Extraordinary Travelers Club (ETC) chose Brenda as their featured Extraordinary Traveler for their January 2025 edition of Dispatch. In her role as a Sobek Expeditions guide in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Alaska, and Pakistan, in her 20s, the allure of exotic locales captivated Brenda, igniting a lifelong passion for adventure. Fueled by wanderlust, she has lived, worked, or traveled in over forty countries.

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While overseas, Brenda pursued adventures in the wilderness and along less-traveled roads through remote villages. She savored immersing herself in foreign cultures to better know and understand the world. While earning her master’s degree in philanthropy and media at Suffolk University, she co-produced, co-directed and co-edited an episode for the PBS series The Visionaries shot in Kenya and Tanzania.

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The funding for most of Brenda’s travels came from her employment as a licensed CPA working for multi-national corporations, the US Department of State and international nonprofit organizations. Now retired, she lives in Belfast, Maine, documenting cherished memories of her global exploits, often pounding the keyboard into the wee hours of the morning. Her first book Becoming Fearless: Finding Courage in the African Wilderness has won awards for best travel memoir from Reader Views, Story Trade Awards, Readers’ Favorites and The Book Fest. She promises more adventure stories to come.

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