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Robin and Danny on Mount Kilimanjaro

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VentureMedia’s Director Robin Boyd’s background in adventure communications includes experience as a competitive athlete and as a professional journalist. She has a Ph.D. in Interpersonal Communication and is a professor of communications at West Virginia State University. She is author of the book “Mountain Biking in West Virginia” (2nd ed., Quarrier Press) and has written for Mountain Bike Action Magazine, Velo News, Bike Midwest Magazine and other cycling publications. She has raced mountain bikes for the past 13 years and was the #1 ranked veteran expert woman in WV in 2002.

For the past three years she has been on a national championship mountain biking and adventure triathlon team. She has directed and promoted two successful mountain bike races, taught mountain biking skills clinics throughout the state and devoted many hours to trail construction and maintenance.

Her most recent adventures include climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as producer of a film (“Makutano,” January 2004) and leading a delegation of college students on a trip to Prague, Czech Republic (March 2004). She has mountain biked throughout the western and eastern United States as well as in Europe, Australia and Africa.

VentureMedia’s Production Associate Daniel Boyd also has a strong background in adventure communications, with a Ph.D. (ABD) in Film Studies and filmmaking projects that have taken him from the hobo “jungles” of the U.S. (“Homeless Brother) to the war-torn mountains of Guatemala (“Marcos de San Marcos). Boyd has dozens of award-winning films in international distribution, including three feature films (“Chillers,” “Strangest Dreams” and “Paradise Park”).

A professor of communications at WVSU since 1985, Boyd has actively involved his filmmaking students in his professional projects. In 1994, Boyd established the Paradise Film Institute at WVSU for the purpose of supporting filmmaking in the state through resource services, production support, foreign exchanges and continuing education.

Boyd also founded TeleDrum, a program that brings together students from the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) with students at WVSU for collaborative film making projects.
In the past he has led groups of students to Russia, Belize, Venezuela, the Czech Republic and Africa.

The Boyds have collaborated on many adventure projects in the past; Daniel also climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (January 2004) as director of “Makutano” and was the photographer for the book “Mountain Biking in West Virginia.”

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