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Our experience began in 1998 with a simple, tastefully engraved birthday party invitation to a week-long extravaganza that coincided with the Millennium festivities in the City of Lights. ‘Paris 2000,’ involved a group of 28 revelers, many of whom now form the core of our ‘travel tribe.’ It was the start of a semi-annual tradition of group vacations that have taken us all over the globe: from the clear waters of Thailand to the starry slopes of the Sundance Film Festival; from the cavernous nightclubs of Ibiza to the fabled beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Tricia Nelson and Angela Kyle developed the idea for Tribe Travel
on the terrace of their rental villa on the
Greek island of Paros. They refined it six months later over caipirhinas
and fried cheese
on a stick on Ipanema Beach. Along the way,
they rallied fellow travelers Shelley Slack and Laura Werner to develop
Tribe Travel’s visual
identity and web presence. With professional
backgrounds in media, design and technology, the Tribe Team is hard
at work on a portfolio
of projects designed to spread the word about
the joy of group travel.  Angela
Kyle - Producer
Tricia
Nelson - Writer
Shelley
Slack - Designer
Laura
Werner - Project Manager
Angela Kyle Departure Cities: Los Angeles, London
Favorite Destination(s): Rio de Janeiro, Venice, New Orleans Angela Kyle has gone by the nickname of ‘Julie McCoy, Cruise
Director’ longer than she cares to remember. After growing up in Pensacola, Florida, she attended Brown University,
and then lived in New York City, where she worked in publishing for
two years before returning to Columbia University to earn a joint MBA
and MS in Journalism. Since then, Angela has worked in business development for some of
the world’s leading media and entertainment brands including CNN,
TNT, Cartoon Network, and Fortune and Wired Magazines. From 1996 to
1998, she worked in London developing international channels for Turner
Entertainment. In 1998 she moved to Atlanta where she was Director
of Business Development at CNN with responsibilities spanning the traditional
cable network business as well as CNN.com. From 1999-2000 Angela led business development initiatives for MXG Media, a teen media and marketing company. There her role involved structuring strategic alliances across MXGâs portfolio of print, Internet and television activities. Until 2002, Angela was Vice President of Business Development at LivePlanet, the Los Angeles-based integrated media company founded by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. At LivePlanet, Angela developed ancillary business opportunities across the company’s portfolio of film and television properties. In 2002, she founded AK Associates, a management company with a roster of screenwriting and producing clients. She currently divides her time between Los Angeles and London. Angela’s prevailing passions are European travel, art and architecture,
horseback riding, cooking, and creative writing. Tricia Nelson Departure City: Los Angeles
Favorite Destination(s): Ibiza, Mykonos, Rio de Janeiro Tricia Nelson is a self-described ‘budget travel diva,’ who
attributes her insatiable wanderlust to a childhood fascination with
the 1970s PBS series Big Blue Marble, which profiled children around
the world and connected viewers through a pen pal program. Tricia is a writer who has completed projects for The Dr. Phil Show, The Walt Disney
Company and FineLiving.com, and has written for Scripps Howard News Service,
major newspapers, magazines and international websites. She
completed a B.A. in Professional Writing and French at Carnegie Mellon
and received her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. Born and raised in and around New York City, Tricia’s nomadic
spirit has led her to temporarily set down roots in locales as diverse
as Washington, DC, New Orleans, Sevilla, Spain and Tours,
France. Over the years, she has journeyed to Cuba, Thailand, Fiji, Australia,
Japan and countless European and Caribbean nations. She is a fan of
world music and dance, and enjoys training for triathlons, studying romance
languages, belly dancing and Cuban-style salsa. Tricia currently resides in Venice, Calif., and maintains a
personal website at www.tricianelson.com. Shelley Slack Departure City: Los Angeles
Favorite Destination(s): Rio de Janeiro Shelley Slack is an interesting combination of artist, athlete and
adventure-seeker. With hobbies ranging from painting to surfing, triathlon
training to traveling with the Tribe, she’s always ready for a
new experience. She spent her college years in the country’s heartland, at the
University of Oklahoma where she studied Visual Communications and
Fine Art. For the past six years, she has lived in Los Angeles, working
as a graphic designer and enjoying the sunny southern California lifestyle. Laura Werner Departure Cities: Los Angeles, Newark
Favorite Destination(s): Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Mykonos/Santorini, Cape Town/Johannesburg
and Tokyo Laura Werner lives her life on planes and in hotels, whether she is
traveling for work or pleasure. She currently runs Werner Consulting,
a retail software consulting business, where she supports retailers
with project management, software design, software development, and
business process re-engineering. Born in the then-small town of Pensacola, Florida, Laura developed
a youthful desire to see what the rest of the world had to offer. Her
childhood residences also included San Juan, Puerto Rico; Miami, Florida;
Washington DC, and Richmond, Virginia. She currently resides in Hermosa
Beach, California. Laura’s passions include do-it-yourself home decorating, agility
training with her Weimaraner, Bailey, the great outdoors, and traveling
with friends and family.
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