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is a Wilmette-based freelance writer and editor who’s contributed to Crain’s Chicago Business, BtoB Magazine and Advertising Age. A graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she spent 15 years at Crain Communications, most recently as a Senior Editor in Special Reports at Advertising Age.
She has three daughters at St. Joseph School in Wilmette, where she leads the Green Team and helped install a school vegetable garden last spring. And in the summer on Sundays, when she isn’t looking to see what’s sprouting from her compost pile, she and her husband Andrew are racing Vanguard 15s out of Lloyd Beach in Winnetka.