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Deborah Howlett
Deborah Howlett is the founder of New Jersey State House News Service, a nonprofit news organization that mentors and trains the next generation of journalists interested in covering government and politics. A lecturer in journalism and digital media at Rutgers University, she is a former journalist for USA Today, The (Newark) Star-Ledger and MercerMe. A native of Portland, Ore., she’s lived in Pennington, NJ, for 21 years and her children attended Hopewell Valley schools. She served as president of the Hopewell Valley Lacrosse youth league and spends her free time cooking, reading, and stewing over several non-fiction writing projects.