While working for The Blade s city desk, she has also covered the police beat and county government and was a general assignment reporter and rewrite editor. As a features writer, she wrote Peach and lifestyle columns and book and television reviews. De Boer has worked as a contract consultant in Guatemala for Oxfam, C.A., and was a management trainee for Leo Burnett, USA, one of the country s largest advertising agencies. Her special field of interest was Latin American urbanization and disaster relief. This year, de Boer was named Best Columnist in Ohio by the statewide chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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