National Geographic Adventurer of the Year will speak this evening at the Emerson Center as a part of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association’s 2013 Planet and Oceans Speaker Series.Savage became the first woman to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

Stuck in a corporate job and facing an unraveling marriage, Savage turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure.

Savage will talk about her adventure and her book, “Rowing the Atlantic: Lesson Learned on the Open Ocean.  Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door, and $25 for students.  For more information call 772.778.5249.