Deborah Petersen is editorial operations manager at Stanford Graduate School of Business and spent many years as a print and digital journalist. As the social media editor for Bay Area News Group, she trained journalists in social media from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and became one of the first journalists in the world to partner with Facebook in 2011. At the San Jose Mercury News, she oversaw the the award-winning coverage of California’s 2006 spinach crisis. She was “embedded” with a 9-11 widow for a year as a staff writer for Northeast magazine, and also wrote about her mother’s decision to die. Her narrative, Ballouville: Poverty With a View, for The Hartford Courant was re-published in RiverTeeth & nominated for a Pulitzer prize. She’s been a therapist, features editor, blogs about electric vehicles, and is a frustrated playwright. She bicycled across America with her husband during her first year of marriage, and lived to write about it. The marriage also survived.