Meet The Faculty

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Our goal is to collect and share the knowledge and experience of our editorial team with travel writers at all stages of their careers.

Program Faculty

Julie Schwietert Collazo

Julie is the managing editor of the Matador Network and the lead faculty at MatadorU. She’s the contributing author to Fodor’s Puerto Rico (Random House 2010) and Fodor’s Caribbean (Random House 2011), as well as The Voluntary Traveler (Dog’s Eye View 2009). She has written city guides for Sherman’s Travel, AOL Travel, Gayot and USA Today, and her writing and photography have appeared in a variety of print publications, including the in-flight magazines of Martinair and Singapore Airlines, as well as general and special interest magazines, among them, Latina Magazine and DISCOVER Magazine. Most recently, she’s produced an iPhone app, the “San Juan Insider.”

David Miller

David Miller is senior editor of Matador (winner of a 2010 Lowell Thomas award for travel journalism) and BETA magazine. A writer in multiple genres, he was a contributing author to Fodor’s Patagonia (Random House, 2009), and has both fiction and poetry anthologized in the Hint Fiction Anthology (W.W. Norton, 2010) and forthcoming in Before We Have Nowhere to Stand (Lost Horse, 2011). Before assuming editorship at Matador he worked as a staff writer for the Boulder Weekly as well as a reporter and columnist for the local Nederland, Colorado newspaper The Mountain Ear. He maintains a blog called Operating on Stoke, and lives with his wife and two young children in Patagonia, Argentina

David Page

David Page is a contributing editor at Matador, and the editor in chief of BETA Magazine. He has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, and The New York Times. His book, Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: A Complete Guide (Countryman/W.W. Norton), was named “Best Guidebook of 2008″ by the Outdoor Writers Association of California and received a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award. David lives on the edge of one of the largest calderas on earth, in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two boys, and an illegal migrant canine representative of the Aztec god Xolotl.

Supporting Editors

In addition, MatadorU features a monthly rotation of more than a dozen editors from Matador (as well as guest editors) who join our community for feedback and special projects. Selected faculty profiles include:

Kate Sedgwick

Kate’s latest adventure took her to Copiapó, Chile, where she hitchhiked with a clown and sneaked past a press barrier in order to document the mine rescue. After becoming a Buenos Aires expat, she was hired as the co-editor of Matador Nights. She’s also a photographer and English teacher. She blogs at yesthereissuchathingasastupidquestion.com/.

Carlo Alcos

Carlo left Vancouver in 2007 and has traveled around Europe in a campervan, trained across Siberia, been lost in the Mongolian steppe. He also lived in Melbourne for two years and spent time in New York City and Eastern Canada. He currently resides in Nelson, BC, where much of his time is spent editing Brave New Traveler, and working on his blog Vagabonderz.com.

Nick Rowlands

A MatadorU alumnus, Nick has been based in Cairo since 2006, working as a tour leader in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as an EFL teacher for the British Council, and as the managing editor of a Cairo music, dining and culture guide. He’s written for the National Geographic intelligent travel blog and The Observer Magazine in Lebanon, and is currently Co-Editor of Matador Life, Cairo Local Expert for NileGuide, and a regular freelancer for Trazzler.