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Shelly Purdy is a Lake Tahoe native who decided to return to the Truckee area after a career in broadcast television. Ms. Purdy has 15 years of experience in television news and entertainment programming as well as corporate, instructional and image video production. She brings her strong leadership skills to head-up the video production arm of Switchback Public Relations + Marketing, Inc. Ms. Purdy has a broad range of experience in the industry from working as an environmental and general assignment reporter to serving as Executive Producer of a reality television show. Ms. Purdy brings her extensive knowledge of the television industry along with her strong writing, leadership and organizational skills to the Switchback team.
In her personal life, Ms. Purdy is an avid outdoor and travel enthusiast. Having practically grown up on skis, she was a member of the University of Nevada at Reno National Championship Women's Ski Team. Ms. Purdy still enjoys skiing but also loves snowshoeing, hiking, mountain biking and exploring the outdoors. The daughter of a travel agency owner and the wife of a professional athlete who traveled internationally, Ms. Purdy has had a lifetime love for travel. She has studied abroad in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji and has skied and hiked with her family all over the world. Some of her most memorable excursions include cheering on Lance Armstrong high atop the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the Tour de France, hiking hut-to-hut in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy and wandering the vast labyrinth of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ms. Purdy plans to carry on the family tradition of travel and exploration with her two young children.
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