Joan N. Boothe
Joan N. Boothe has been fascinated with stories of Antarctic adventure and exploration since childhood. In 1995, after many years working in the worlds of economics, finance, and teaching business administration to graduate business students, she at last made her first trip to Antarctica and saw where so many things she had read about took place. Ms Boothe has returned to the Antarctic regions many times since, including making a 67-day circumnavigation of the entire Antarctic continent aboard an icebreaker. She has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2007. In 2010, she taught a course on Antarctica’s Heroic Age for Stanford University’s continuing education program. Ms Boothe has two children, both raised in San Francisco, California, where she and her husband have lived since 1970.