Aimée Dowl is a freelance travel and culture writer living in the Ecuadorian Andes at a cool 2,850 meters above sea level. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Bitch, Bust, Yoga Journal, Lonely Planet publications, and various anthologies.
Raised in the midwestern United States, Aimée’s first foray overseas was a post-high school gap year teaching English in Prague, where she landed with the first wave of American expatriates and witnessed the country’s historic division into two independent nations.
After earning a degree in Chinese and Asian history, Aimée dove headlong into a film editing career, working on more than a dozen feature films and documentaries as well as a nationally televised, stop-motion animation series.
As Director of Acquisitions at DigitalMedia, Inc., she signed
postproduction deals for award-winning independent films dealing with
such issues as Native American rights, immigration, AIDS, and sexual
violence.
While on a long hiatus studying the history of science, medicine, and technology, Aimée earned two Master’s degrees and was awarded grants and scholarships by the Fulbright Foundation, the Ahmanson Foundation, Middlebury College, UCLA, and many other institutions. In a twist of fate, all of this led Aimée to Quito, Ecuador, where she writes about travel, women’s issues, food and agriculture, and now and then, pop culture.
Aimée is also currently co-managing the South American Explorers clubhouse in Quito, a non-profit organization whose mission is improve the social, economic and environmental conditions within South America by fostering greater awareness of the continent through the diffusion of information and cross cultural exchange. Her partner, Derek Kverno, writes http://www.birdingecuador.blogspot.com.
You’ll find Aimée [here].
