Convocation: Doug Lansky

Doug Lansky is an adventurer, award-winning author, and world-travel expert. After working the copying machine at Late Night with David Letterman, Spy Magazine, and The New Yorker during college, Lansky rejected life as a professional intern and hit the road. After two and a half years working his way around the planet—picking bananas in Israel, snowmobile guiding in the Alps, selling carpets in Morocco, and hitching on yachts—a car accident in Thailand brought him home. Six months later, Lansky was back on the road, but this time with a nationally syndicated travel column that grew to reach over 10 million readers in 40 major newspapers. Lansky seeks to help others avoid the pitfalls on the road less traveled and adapt an inquisitive travel mindset. He imparted lessons learned while backpacking through more than 100 countries in his presentation titled "Get Lost."