Complete List of Media Appearances

Big-Time Buzz:

The New York Times:  The book was reviewed by Charles McGrath in the Education Life quarterly section in the Sunday paper.  (July 26th, 2009)

NPR:  Maya and Tom were featured guests on NPR's fastest-growing talk show, "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook in Boston.  (June 11th, 2009)

USA Today:  Maya was featured in a half-page article in USA Today by Greg Toppo. (June 9th, 2009)

The Boston Globe:  The New Global Student got a rave review in the Boston Globe by Caroline Leavitt. (June 7th, 2009)

Smithsonian:  Maya is quoted in Daniel Politi's cover story for the June issue of Smithsonian magazine, which has seven million monthly readers. Read the online version here

Television:

Maya was a featured guest on KATU's morning television show, AM Northwest in Portland, Oregon. (July 15th, 2009)

Books:

The New Global Student is mentioned in the new revised edition of The Four-Hour Workweek, the breakthrough best-seller by Tim Ferriss. (December 15th, 2009)

Maya contributed a chapter in the new anthology, Courageous Parents, Confident Kids, edited by Dr. Amy Tiemann and published in April 2010.

More:

Megan Pincus Kajitani gave the book a rave review in her blog, Having Enough (In a Have-It-All World) (February 9th, 2010)

The book was reviewed in this piece in the School Library Journal (January 27th, 2010)

Lynn O'Rourke Hayes recommended Maya's book in an article about family travel in the online versions of the Dallas Morning News and Chicago Tribune and it was picked up by CBS.com and ABC.com and several other outlets. (December 6th-30th, 2009)

Chantal Panozzo did a fun interview with Maya about writing and entrepreneurship at Writer Abroad. (December 1, 2009)

Julia Kennedy did a recorded phone interview with Maya for the Summit Series for Families website.  (November 3, 2009)

Rick Griffiths did an extensive interview with Maya on his blog, Living Bueno. (November 1, 2009)

Carmen Bolanos did a series of posts on traveling families for her NuNomad blog,  including this interview with Maya. (October 21st, 2009)

Barbara Lloyd McMichael wrote this very positive review of the book for The Bellingham Herald and other Puget Sound publications.  (October 18th, 2009)

Julian Stetter did an interview with Maya for The Argentimes, a popular print and web news source for expats and travelers in Argentina. (October 10th, 2009)

John Bardos did an extensive interview with Maya on his site, JetSetCitizen.com  about living in Argentina. (October 2, 2009)

Dr. Jessie Voigts offered a very positive review and extensive interview with Maya on her site, WanderingEducators.com.  Read it here. (September 22, 2009)

FutureExpats.com featured a great review of the book here. (September 15th, 2009)

BookBrowse.com, a major website for book lovers, featured The New Global Student in a giveaway contest.  (September 9th, 2009)

Maya's September 23rd teleseminar with Janice Campbell of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors is promoted in this month's issue of The Lucky Freelancer (September 2, 2009)

Maya's quotes about the benefits of internships abroad were featured prominently in an article on CollegeRecruiter.com (August 31st, 2009)

Maya was interviewed by Jennifer Wing for NPR affiliate station KPLU in Seattle/Tacoma.

(August 30th, 2009)

Maya was featured in the Newport News-Times in this article by Terry Dillman. (August 26th, 2009)

Maya was the featured guest on Iowa Public Radio's talk show, "The Exchange" with host Ben Kieffer.  (August 25th, 2009)

Maya was quoted and her book mentioned in "The Black Woman's Guide to College Affordability" in the September 2009 issue of Essence magazine. 

Maya was interviewed by Rufus Woods, editor and publisher of The Wenatchee World for this article. (July 31st, 2009)

Maya was interviewed for this article on open universities by Dennis Carter for eCampus News. (July 27th, 2009)

Jeanne Levy of the Hillsboro Argus (Oregon) interviewed Maya and Tom for this article. (July 24th, 2009)

Maya was interviewed for this article in The Oregonian by Paige Parker. (July 21, 2009)

Maya and Tom did a fun interview with Todd and Laura Mansfield, hosts of Parenting Unplugged™ Radio. (July 14th, 2009)

The book was featured in the August issue of The Rotarian magazine.

Maya and Tom did a webinar with Steve Hargadon of The Future of Education.  Listen to the audio here  (June 4th, 2009)

Maya did a 50-minute live call-in show for an NPR affiliate in southern Oregon/northern California, Jefferson Radio. (June 4th, 2009)

Maya is featured in the spring issue of Diversity MBA magazine in this article on U.S. students competing in the global economy.

Dr. Michael Shaughnessy interviewed Maya for this piece in Education News. (May 18th, 2009)

Check out Maya's podcast interview with Dr. Amy Tiemann, author of Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising A Family

The New Global Student is featured in this piece in Rotary International's Interaction online magazine. (May 10th, 2009)

The New Global Student was selected as a "Best Parenting Book" by the team at Vanessa Van Petten's site, RadicalParenting.com, devoted to "Parenting From a New Perspective." (April 15, 2009)

Maya was quoted in an article on CareerBuilder.com regarding the pros and cons of getting a GED. The same article also appeared on the AOL jobs site here   (March 23/24, 2009)

Though it was too soon to mention the book, Maya was interviewed last year by Rich Halten for AARP Radio. (No, she's not retired and she's not yet 50--but she has insights to share about the expat experience in Buenos Aires.) Her piece is about two minutes into the four-minute broadcast.

Listen to it here:

Announcements 

Maya was selected to be a regular weekly blogger for Converge Magazine.

Based on strong early sales, The New Global Student was selected to be a featured title on the New Releases (Paperback) table at all Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country from July 28th through August 11th.

Maya was selected to be on the Board of Experts for the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors.

Blog Talk

Mike Skowronek, an expat living in Buenos Aires known as Yanqui Mike, wrote a post about the book on his blog. (July 17th, 2009)

"SwitchedOnMom" wrote a glowing review of the book in her blog, The More Child, about gifted education and homeschooling.  (July 12, 2009)

Jennifer Dees posted a review of the book on her Liberty Lyceum Gifted Homeschooling blog (July 6th, 2009)

The New Global Student got a great review (with many comments) in Trent Hamm's financial advice/frugal living blog, The Simple Dollar. (July 5th, 2009)

Wes Henricksen posted a thumbs-up review on Examiner.com (June 24th, 2009)

Rob Jacobs highly recommended the book on his Education Innovation blog. (June 16th, 2009)

Patrick Riccards posted a very positive review of The New Global Student on his education blog, Eduflack. (June 5th, 2009)