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Curiosity, journalism skills and luck have allowed Margaret to explore eclectic topics from the nutritional habits of female Olympians to the lawsuits intended to stop the building of Rio de Janeiro’s Guggenheim Rio museum.
Over the past ten years, she has written for: Chicago magazine, LifetimeTV.com, Ladies’ Home Journal, Wine Enthusiast, Crain’s Chicago Business,Time Out Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, Executive Travel, University Business, Business2.com, Working Mother, Mademoiselle, Teen, Sky and many others. She was a contributor to the The Business Week Guide to The Best Business Schools (7th Ed.) and Weight Watchers Magazine’s Annual Recipes for Success 2000.
In December 2004, 75 million racing fans were delighted to discover Mobil Travel Guide: NASCAR Travel Planner, an officially-licensed guide to the 30 cities with NASCAR-sanctioned tracks in the U.S. and Mexico. As the former executive editor of Mobil Travel Guide, Margaret developed the 512-page, full-color book in less than five months.
Before freelancing, she worked for the Rochester Business Journal, Prepared Foods, and as a researcher for the local bureau of Forbes.
Margaret has a B.A. in fine arts from Vanderbilt University and an M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is currently taking courses at the Kellogg School of Management's Center for Nonprofit Management.
She is a member and past board member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and a two-time finalist for the Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor Award. Her article on at-home pet first aid for Woman’s Day magazine won the Dog Writers Association of America general interest magazine Maxwell award in 2002. Margaret was chair of the 2001 Writers & Editors One-on-One Conference. She is a past member of the board of directors of Friends of the Forest Preserves and a past trustee of the Fountain Valley School of Colorado. | |||||||||||||||||||
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