Contributors

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	Alexandra Duszak
	Delaware native Alexandra Duszak is a 2011 Honors graduate of the University of Delaware, where she was executive editor of The Review, the University’s student newspaper. She is currently participating in a fellowship at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC.

 

	Amy Anzilotti
	Dr. Amy Wagner Anzilotti is a Board Certified Pediatrician living in Wilmington, DE with her husband and three school age children. She publishes the blog, Dr. Amy Kids, and you can find her on Facebook.

 

	Andrew Flaherty
	Wilmington native. University of Delaware graduate. Media and Pop Culture junkie. Exploring the unusual and offbeat in the area.

 

	Andye Daley
	Andye Daley is a Reading Paraprofessional in the Appoquinimink School District and the mother of 3. A former candidate for NCC Council, she is the founder of the Middletown Corridor Coalition and serves on the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Service of Delaware and the Brady Kohn Foundation. In her spare time she keeps elected officials on the ball.

 

	Ashley Coleman Thayer
	Ashley Coleman Thayer is a spokesperson/model/host, former Miss Teen USA, and a health & fitness blogger. She lives in Delaware with her husband and two daughters; where she enjoys yoga, cooking & baking, running, and of course, reading bedtime stories. To find more of her work visit SelfSoulSpace.com.

 

	Bree Wellons
	In 2009, Bree launched Dilwyne Designs, a design studio born from her many travels, her eye for detail, and her knack for making her environment, no matter where it is, a place where friends and family are always welcome and comfortable. Her passion for combining old and new became a signature stamp on her own home and on the spaces she designs for clients.

 

	Brian DiSabatino
	Brian DiSabatino is President of EDiS Company, a family owned construction company founded in 1908. In addition to family, Brian has a love for business, community, fishing and food.

 

	C. R. McLeod
	Currently an administrator with New Castle County’s Community Services Department, C. R. McLeod formerly served as the communications director for County Executive Chris Coons and as an assistant to U.S. Senator Tom Carper. He is a member of the 2011 Leadership Delaware class.

 

	Carroll Laurence
	Stylist and Social Media Expert Carroll Laurence will be keeping you posted on anything and everything to do with fashion, beauty and lifestyle. “This is my expertise and I love what I do more than anything…I look forward to sharing with you my tips and inspiration. “

 

	Dan Young
	Dan Young is a fourth-generation Wilmingtonian who is finishing a dissertation for his Ph.D. in impulse, online giving to non-profits at Temple University and teaches as an adjunct professor at West Chester University and University of Delaware.

 

	Dave Burris
	Dave Burris provides Internet solutions like WordPress websites, social media training and email marketing for locally-owned, independent small businesses. Learn more about Dave and his company, Burris Digital, at DaveBurris.com.

 

	Dave Tiberi
	New Castle native and legendary boxing champion Dave Tiberi is a fixture across the Delaware business, civic, non-profit, media and sports scenes. The founder of TNT Video, Dave and his wife Angela recently formed Emergency Response Protocol, a company that uses digital technology to help first responders gather critical location-based information before responding to an emergency. Dave also continues to remain involved in boxing, and recently created a new program for professionals called the Dave Tiberi Boot Camp.

 

	David Raymond
	The original Phillie Phanatic and preacher of the Power of Fun.

 

	Erin Ford Sicuranza
	Erin Ford Sicuranza is a wife, a mother of three, an entrepreneur who co-founded Springboard Careers, Inc. (http://www.springboardjobs.com/), a Wilmington native, music junkie, avid reader, technology geek, and basketball player. Connect with her at www.facebook.com/erinsic, or through Memories in Wilmington.

 

	Fay Jacobs
	A 2011 Best of Delaware winner for Best Writer Downstate, Fay Jacobs is a native New Yorker who spent 30 years in the Washington, DC, area working in journalism and public relations. She retired in 2009 as Executive Director of Rehoboth Beach Main Street. Fay has written for The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Delaware Beach Life, Coastal Sussex Weekly and the Wilmington News Journal and is currently working as a full-time writer, editor and publishing consultant. She has written three award-winning books about Rehoboth Beach.

 

	Frank Pagliaro
	Frank Pagliaro has been a Wilmington wine merchant since 1986 – Frank’s Union Wine Mart. He is the Team Host & Chief Wino of the FranksWine.com Marathon Team which gets fellow winos and runners together to train for a yearly Fall Marathon while raising money for children’s charities.

 

	Hari Cameron
	Hari Cameron is the Chef du Cuisine at Restaurant Nage in Rehoboth Beach and a founding member of Slow Food Delmarva. Hari blogs at thecombandwattle.com.

 

	James Diehl
	James Diehl is an award-winning journalist who has covered Sussex County, Delaware for various media outlets since 1998. He is the owner/publisher of The Sussex Pilot, and the author of two works of non-fiction – “Remembering Sussex County, from Zwaanendael to King Chicken,” published in 2009 by The History Press, and “World War II Heroes of Southern Delaware,” also published in 2009. He is also the co-producer of an hour-long documentary – “Vanishing Voices of World War II: Southern Delaware’s Humble Heroes.” He lives in Seaford, Delaware, with his wife and two daughters.

 

	Joanne Butler
	Joanne Butler is a senior economics fellow at the Caesar Rodney Institute of Delaware. You can email her at joanne-butler@comcast.net.

 

	John Osborn
	John Osborn has been a senior executive with leading life science and healthcare companies, including Cephalon, Dendreon, Onyx Pharmaceuticals and US Oncology. He served with the U.S. Department of State under the first President Bush, was confirmed by the Senate as a member of the bipartisan United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and has been an Eisenhower Fellow to Northern Ireland, a visiting scholar in East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a member of the board of governors of the East-West Center in Honolulu. John has held academic appointments at Oxford, Princeton and the University of Washington. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the board of trustees of Tower Hill School and the Delaware Art Museum.

 

	John Stapleford
	John holds a Ph.D. in urban and regional economics (University of Delaware), M.A. in government and planning (Southern Illinois University) and B.S. in chemistry (Denison University). He is director of the Center for Economic Policy and Analysis for the Caesar Rodney Institute and a professor emeritus of economic development from Eastern University. He most recently worked as an associate director and senior economist with Moody’s Economy.com. John was Director of the Bureau of Economic Research at the University of Delaware and the co-founder of the Delaware Small Business Development Center. He is author of a book, numerous articles in professional journals, and over one hundred applied research monographs.

 

	John Young
	John M. Young is the former President of the Christina School District Board of Education and current CSD board member.

 

	Ken Grant
	Ken Grant has spent most of his life in Delaware, loves being in all three counties, works for the only U.S.-based manufacturer of Thin Layer Chromatography Plates, is married to an incredible woman who is willing to put up with his antics and is the father of two teenagers who have agreed to wait at least another 20 years before writing the books about their “adventurous” childhood.

 

	Ken Simpler
	Ken Simpler is a Delaware native, former investment professional and current student of public policy at the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. He is also a 2011 Leadership Delaware fellow.

 

	Kevin McGonegal
	Kevin McGonegal worked in the Maloney, McLaughlin and Frawley Administrations. Today he is vice president of Bellevue Realty Commercial Division in Wilmington.

 

	Kevin Noonan
	Kevin Noonan has covered and commented on the Delaware sports scene for more than 30 years, everything from amateur recreation leagues and high schools to local colleges and the Philadelphia professional teams. He’s been voted Delaware Sportswriter of the Year multiple times and currently covers the Philadelphia Eagles for CBSSports.com and teaches creative writing courses at Wilmington University.

 

	Mary Elizabeth Snyder
	ME Snyder teaches Middle School Spanish at Tower Hill School in Wilmington. She is a 2011 UD graduate who taught English for a year in Grenada, Spain.

 

	Michael Fleming
	Wilmington resident Michael Fleming is a marketing and communications executive.

 

	Michael Stafford
	Author Michael Stafford is a 2003 graduate of Duke University School of Law and a former Republican Party officer from Middletown. He works as an attorney in Wilmington. He is the author of the book “An Upward Calling” on the need for public policy and politics to advance the common good. You can follow his writing on Facebook (click here).

 

	Mike Matthews
	Mike Matthews is a fifth-grade teacher from Wilmington, Del. You can “friend” him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/downwithabsolutes

 

	Moira Sheridan
	Moira Sheridan, native Delawarean, is a free-lance writer, Master Gardener, and owner of a large, unruly garden.

 

	Page Evans
	Page Evans grew up in Wilmington and now lives in Washington, DC, with her two daughters and Angus, their black Lab. Her articles have been published in The Washington Post, Washingtonian and various other publications. Her essay on motherhood, “Sharks and Jets,” is in “Mommy Wars,” (Random House, 2006). She also has a piece in “2 To Do Before I Die,” (Little Brown, 2005). You can check out her column, “Page’s Turn,” in the Georgetown Dish.

 

	Parthena Moisiadis
	Parthena Moisiadis is a 2011 graduate of Wilmington Friends School and a student at the University of Pittsburgh studying English Writing and Communication.

 

	Pat Troy-Brooks
	Employment and Workforce expert with over 28 years experience empowering tens of thousands of people going through career transition on how to re-invent themselves and move into rewarding careers. Pat’s soon to be released book, “Your Job Search GPS, Navigate to your career destination in 10 steps” will teach job seekers how to navigate through the maze of the 21st Century job market.

 

	Paul Pomeroy
	Managing Partner at Wilmington-based advertising agency Aloysius Butler & Clark. Former three-term member of Newark City Council. Lover of all things Delaware.

 

	Read Scott
	Read Scott is a student at the University of Delaware, earning a degree in political science. He has been very active in Delaware Democratic politics since 2004, working on multiple campaigns including Joe Biden’s reelection campaign in 2008, and most recently for John Carney’s campaign for Congress in 2010. He is a founding member and former vice president of the Young Democrats Movement, a statewide organization dedicated to promoting progressive ideals and principles through the education and activism of Delaware’s high school students. He is a proud progressive Democrat seeking to end the under representation of young people in the political debate.

 

	Rick Jensen
	Rick Jensen, host of the well-named “Rick Jensen Show” on 1150 AM WDEL, has figured out a way to drink beer on the job. Really. He and his thirsty friends taste and talk about beer on Thirsty Thursday from 3-4pm every Thursday. And they get away with it because he has a sponsor, Premier Wine and Spirits. Dude! WTG! Reach Rick at Rick@WDEL.Com.

 

	Shaun Fink
	Shaun Fink is a small business professional in the insurance and financial services industry.

 

	Stacey Schiller
	Stacey Haddock Schiller is a marketing maven and consultant with Stacey Ink Marketing & Communications. A native Delawarean with downstate roots, Stacey is an avid runner, yoga newbie and lover of all things Springsteen.

 

	Stephanie Fitzpatrick
	Stephanie Fitzpatrick (25, Trolley Square) is a PR and social media maven interested the newest technologies, best spots in Wilmington, latest TV shows and movies, and behind the scenes political news. Born and raised in Delaware, she attended the University of Delaware and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and International Relations. Since then, she has worked in political and non-profit communications for the past 4 years – working toward a better community, one newspaper article and tweet at a time!

 

	Stephanie Przybylek
	Stephanie Przybylek is the Executive Director of the Delaware Military Heritage & Education Foundation.

 

	Tamara Shirer
	Tamara Shirer has worked as a Child/Adolescent Social Worker & School Counselor for 11 years. She is now the founder and CEO of Born For Greatness Youth Empowerment Resources. The Born For Greatness company provides parents & educators with solutions that build confidence in their children to succeed. Get your FREE audio on ‘The Top 5 Ways To Build Confidence In Your Child’ www.BFG-youth.com

 

	Ted Kittila
	Ted Kittila is a corporate and commercial litigator who practices law in Wilmington, Delaware. A native of Seaford, Delaware, Ted earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of Delaware in International Relations in 1996. After graduating, Ted received a Fulbright Scholarship and studied Western European History in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2000, Ted earned his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. After a clerkship in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, Ted practiced law in New York for six years before returning home to Delaware in 2007. Ted lives with his wife Anne-Laure (a native of Paris, France) and their two children in Greenville, Delaware.

 

	Vernon Proctor
	Vernon Proctor, a resident of Centreville and Bethel, Delaware, is an attorney in Wilmington.

 

	Ron Williams
	Ron Williams, a Delaware native, has been writing and editing politics in New Jersey and Delaware for more than 40 years. He’s won numerous journalistic awards over his career. He is somewhat retired and lives in Middletown with his wife.