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Graham Pollard is the first person to ride an electric scooter across the United States, and the first person to create a feature length film on electric scooters. He was born in Beverly, MA, in 1996, and grew up in Marblehead, MA. He also competed in the inaugural trial event for the eScootr Championship, a global electric scooter racing league.

Early Life
In 2001, the Pollard family went on a year long sailing trip, travelling from Maine to Central America and back on a Bristol 41.1. He later became a wilderness expedition guide, and the head of Wilderness Skills at William Lawrence Camp. Pollard attended Marblehead High School, and Western Carolina University for undergrad.

The Scooter Crossing
In June of 2020, Graham launched an expedition to become the first person to ever ride an electric scooter across the United States. Travelling 4000 miles, across 10 states at 18.6 MPH, he completed the journey in just over two months using a fleet of Segway Ninebot MAX scooters. Accompanying him on the trip were Christian Boyle and Brandon Bedford, who rode along in a 1991 VW Vanagon Westfalia support vehicle. The trip raised over $5000 for William Lawrence Camp, which was not able to open that summer due to Covid 19 restrictions. In April 2021, he released the Scooter Crossing documentary on the Electric Scooter Guide YouTube channel, which was the first feature length film on electric scooters.

Present
Graham is currently the Sales and Marketing Lead for Yawboard, a startup electric scooter company based out of the UK. He also travelled to Adria, Italy in July of 2021 for the eScootr Championship inaugural trial run, making him one of the first people in the world to ride the custom built s1-x racing scooter. Pollard is stated as hoping to compete in the racing league when it officially launches in 2021.