contributors KATHLEEN DORSEY is the Managing Editor/Web Producer for Shore and Get Healthy magazines, and a features section editor with The Times Media Company. Her focus is on health, relationships and home design. Kathleen has worked for The Times for three years, starting out in the circulation department call center, then promoted to Times Marketing Coordinator before joining the niche publications and features team. Kathleen is a native of Indianapolis. She earned her B.A. in Journalism from Ball State University in 2009. While at Ball State, Kathleen was involved with several different student publications and won a regional Society of Professional Journalists award for Best Online Feature for her work with Ball Bearings, a student-run online multimedia magazine. Kathleen currently lives in Hammond with her husband and her cat, Bear. She enjoys traveling, cooking, eating and reading anything she can get her hands on. LAVETA HUGHES is a Department Editor/Web Producer for Shore magazine and The Times Media Company special publications. A Gary native and mother of two girls, LaVeta has interests that include public policy, human rights, the arts, fashion, reading and traveling. She has extensive experience working as a program manager and policy analyst for homeless populations and services for children and families in New York City. LaVeta has an MPA and an MSW from Columbia University. ELOISE MARIE VALADEZ, Associate Editor/Web Producer at Shore magazine and a section editor for The Times Media Company has written about food, entertainment and lifestyles in Chicago, Northwest Indiana and the country over the past 25 years. Eloise, who was born and raised in Chicago, learned to appreciate the culinary arts and wonderful food while growing up the youngest of eight children in a household of fantastic cooks. She’s always inspired by a great recipe, music of all types, vibrant theatrical productions and stimulating conversations with friends.
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JEREMY GANTZ’s abiding passions are biking, live jazz, politics, and craft beer and whiskey. The “research” he did for this issue’s feature on craft distilleries (“Raising Midwestern Spirits: Let craft distilleries end your dependence on foreign alcohol,” on page 33.) was the most fun he’s had in journalism in a long time. A Contributing Editor at In These Times and Shore magazine, he spends most daylight hours working in the City Colleges of Chicago’s Communications Department.
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