Christina Kay Bolton, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

Christina became a full-fledged world traveler at the age of 26 when she traveled for a year on her own. Her eyes were opened wide when she took a flight to Pakistan, and then moved slowly across India by train and across Nepal by raft and by foot. She quickly adapted to the travelers lifestyle and decided she wanted to see the entire world in this way, not on a standard package tour where all sense of adventure and discovery is missing and one rarely speaks to the people living in the country.

For Christina, there’s no greater excitement than ‘undiscovered’ destinations. Her style has developed from ‘arrive in a county with no plans and nowhere to stay’ to thoroughly planned seamless journeys that still provide an abundance of surprises. She blends a range of different experiences in one trip from staying in a hostel one night and a boutique hotel the next, to trekking through the mountains, exploring cities, and lying on the beach.

Christina’s love of travel, photography, and writing have led her to create inTravel Magazine™. She realized that she read all sorts of travel magazines, but craved more authentic travel stories where the amazing, the unbelievable and the hilarious experiences are all shared in well written articles with beautiful pictures. So, with a sense of openness toward finding what was missing she began inTravel Magazine™ and hopes it serves its audience well and becomes their abode in the travel world.

Sasha Keeler Didier, Assistant Editor

At a young age, Sasha had a wide curiosity for travel. After watching slideshows of her grandmother's safari trips to Kenya and listening to her grandfather's stories of time spent in Thailand, she was overwhelmed and excited by all of the places to experience. She developed a love for monkeys, lions, and all exotic animals she would see pictures of in National Geographic, and aspired to become like Jane Goodall and help save the wildlife.

Sasha’s first overseas trip was at 15, when she went on a class trip to France. At 16, she traveled with her school's concert choir to Italy, singing in small cathedrals, and at the Vatican for the Pope. These experiences increased Sasha’s artistic realization and opened her eyes to the diverse beauty of language, culture, and music. Her thirst for travel had become unquenchable.

During her college years at the University of New Hampshire, Sasha became involved with her school's literary magazine: Aegis, where she was an editor as well as the business manager. In 2001, she was accepted into the Cambridge program offered at UNH and spent the summer studying travel writing at Cambridge University. As an English major she focused on prose writing and also pursued a minor in Fine Arts.

Sasha then discovered the BUNAC program and decided to live and work in New Zealand. She backpacked and traveled throughout the country, working various jobs in resorts, vineyards, hostels, and restaurants. Sasha’s knack for photography developed even further during her travels. It was then that she realized her career goal would involve traveling, writing, and photography as a way of educating and inspiring others to explore the world. After 10 months abroad, Sasha returned to New England to pursue her career.

Lisa Harvey, Assistant Editor

Lisa Harvey's love for writing began before her love of travel. Taking creative writing classes in high school, she kept a daily journal and flourished in nonfiction creative writing. When she enrolled at the University of New Hampshire in 2007, she continued her writing classes and majored in English, with an Italian minor. Following her roots, she traveled to her great grandmother's homeland of Italy and studied in the small Medieval town of Ascoli Piceno for four months. It was here that she began to learn the difference between tourism and traveling. On weekends she would explore Europe and began travel writing. 

Lisa believes that travel is a way to bring peace to the world by opening minds to other cultures and is excited to join inTravel. Lisa now is employed by Parker Villas, a company based in Lynn, Mass, that specializes in renting Italian Villas to those that want to truly experience more of Italy than a cookie-cutter hotel room and a tour bus.

Nate Marcus, Assistant Editor

Nate Marcus is a trip leader for Where There Be Dragons and Putney Student Travels. His voyages take him around the world with groups of American students. While he loves to travel and play in other countries, he is going to school soon to become a vegetarian chef. He enjoys travel writing and is currently working on a screenplay.

Rick Robiar, Director of Sales