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Sheila Scarborough is a writer and speaker specializing in travel, tourism, social media and (when time allows) NHRA
drag racing. Along with Becky McCray, she is a co-founder of Tourism Currents; they offer online courses in social media for
tourism professionals. Sheila served for almost 23 years
as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy aboard ships homeported in Hawaii, California, Virginia and Japan plus shore
duty in Washington D.C. and Rhode Island. She also lived overseas with her family in the Netherlands during a tour with NATO. She began writing part-time while
on active duty, and is now enjoying a successful career as a full-time writer and blogger specializing in travel, tourism,
the social Web and NHRA drag racing. A certified Navy Master Training
Specialist and former Associate Professor at the University of Florida, Sheila is also an enthusiastic and knowledgeable public
speaker and trainer/teacher. "Her energy and enthusiasm for using new tools is
incredible and infectious. Sheila has pulled the tourism industry into the 21st century with her sharp ideas and her love
for new forms of communication." She
is a founding member of the Association for Women in Communications (AWC) National Tech Committee (planning tech and
social media training for members) and she's also a Board member of Freelance Austin.
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