Noelle Salmi

Noelle Salmi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lived there as a young child until moving with her family to South America. She returned to the area as a student at Stanford University, before heading to Columbia University in New York to earn a masters degree in international journalism. She worked at a major daily newspaper and at CNN in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; at Associated Press in Berlin, Germany; and in public relations in both New York City and Seattle, Washington, before moving...See more

Noelle Salmi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lived there as a young child until moving with her family to South America. She returned to the area as a student at Stanford University, before heading to Columbia University in New York to earn a masters degree in international journalism. She worked at a major daily newspaper and at CNN in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; at Associated Press in Berlin, Germany; and in public relations in both New York City and Seattle, Washington, before moving back to the Bay Area in 2001. Her writing has appeared in numerous US and international publications, including Jornal do Brasil , The West Side Spirit , Emerging Markets, USA TODAY , Bay Area Parent, and the San Francisco Chronicle , and she is the author of Frommer's San Francisco with Kids (2nd and 3rd editions) and Frommer's San Francisco Day by Day (1st edition). She lives in San Francisco with her husband Mika and three children, Annika, Natasha, and Aksel. See less