For Immediate Release
February 20, 2008
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Adventure Cycling Welcomes New Staff to National Headquarters in Missoula, MT

Specialists in media, tours, membership, and shipping round out already robust crew

Missoula, Mont. —Adventure Cycling Association – North America’s largest bicycling membership organization – is pleased to announce that five new staff members have joined their team as media, membership, tours, and shipping specialists.

“We’re thrilled that we continue to attract such talented and dedicated staff to our growing organization,” says Jim Sayer, Executive Director of Adventure Cycling.

Winona Sorensen, a Master of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Montana’s Media Arts Department, joins Adventure Cycling as Media Director. With a strong background in print publications, web content creation and management, and digital video production, she will direct the organization’s digital media and press relations. Ms. Sorensen recently returned to Missoula from New Mexico where she worked as an Assistant Professor in Media Arts at New Mexico Highlands University.

Elliot Bassett and Sarah Raz are new additions to Adventure Cycling’s busy tours department.

As a Tours Specialist, Mr. Bassett will work on the organization’s  tour logistics, covering over forty tours this year alone. Bassett moved to Missoula from Chicago in 2001 to attend the University of Montana. After completing his Bachelors of Science in exercise science, he spent a year of graduate studies in Canada, followed by a year of racing triathlons around the country, before returning to Missoula, and joining Adventure Cycling’s tours department.

New Tours Specialist Sarah Raz will assist Adventure Cycling tour participants with tour sign ups as well as fielding questions about tour logistics. A Virginia native, Raz moved to Helena, MT in 2005 to lead a Montana Conservation Corps trail crew. Raz became interested in Adventure Cycling in the summer of 2007 while planning her first bicycle tour.

Josh Tack joins Adventure Cycling’s Member Services and Information Technology departments where he will process memberships and handle member correspondence. Tack earned his Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Montana, and participates in all types of cycling, including road racing, mountain biking, touring, and cyclocross.

Kevin Vogelzang joins Adventure Cycling’s thriving Sales and Shipping Deparment as a Shipping Specialist where he will take the lead on order processing and customer relations. A Missoula resident since 2000, Vogelzang also runs his own Physical Therapy business focused on movement based athletic enhancement and rehabilitation, as well as working as the consultant PT for athletes at the University of Montana and with the Missoula Maulers hockey team.

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