| Genevieve Schmitt is an Emmy-nominated television producer and an award-winning magazine editor with more than 25 years of experience working in both the television and print mediums. Her company, Solitude Ranch Communications LLC, publishes
WomenRidersNow.com, an online magazine about women and motorcycling, and TrikeRidersNow.com
capitalizing on interest in the booming three-wheeled motorcycle market. Her company also develops programs and consults with powersports companies to help
them reach female customers. She also consults with non-endemic companies on the issues of female empowerment and related women's topics.
In addition to publishing her online magazines, Genevieve writes a monthly column in American Iron magazine, the leading V-Twin motorcycle magazine on the newsstand. She has been the Women's POV Editor for the magazine since 2005, writing not only her monthly column but also motorcycle reviews, custom bike features and product reviews.
In 2000, Genevieve founded Woman Rider magazine, an award-winning publication that served the fastest growing segment of motorcycling -- women. Since being involved as editor of Woman Rider, Genevieve has made it her mission to educate the industry on the importance of the female riding demographic as well as encourage and inspire women who are dreaming of riding to make that dream come true.
In the fall of 2004, Genevieve wrapped up three seasons appearing on "ATV Magazine Television," a weekly show on the Outdoor Life Network. She served as the lifestyle correspondent covering ATV travel stories, product reviews and interesting stories about ATV uses.
Prior to that she appeared on Speedvision (now Speed Channel) as the first and only woman to report from the seat of a motorcycle when she was a correspondent on the weekly show "Bike Week" from 1997-2003. She toured the country reporting on the lifestyle side of motorcycling. It's a little known fact that Genevieve was the first female on-air motorcycling reporter.
Genevieve is the world's leading spokesperson on the topic of women and motorcycling. She often gets called upon to deliver inspirational speeches and emcee events, and is asked to offer her expert opinion for articles and in TV shows on motorcycling. She has been quoted in hundreds of national and international newspaper and magazine articles on the subject of women and motorcycling.
Because of her journalism work raising awareness of female motorcyclists, Genevieve was inducted into the Sturgis Hall of Fame in Sturgis, South Dakota, in 2001.
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