Catherine Pierre,

Dale Keiger, Senior Writer

Michael Anft, Senior Writer

Maria Blackburn, Senior Writer

Shaul Tsemach, Art Director

Dianne MacLeod, Business Manager

Debra Gips, Electronic Edition Webmaster

CATHERINE PIERRE is editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine and director of the Johns Hopkins Publishing Group, which provides consulting, editorial, and design services for university and alumni publications. Before coming to Hopkins, she held positions at Baltimore magazine and at the Walters Art Museum, an internationally renowned institution located in Baltimore. She holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Maryland and a master's in English literature from Indiana University. She joined the staff of Johns Hopkins Magazine in 2003.

DALE KEIGER is the magazine's associate editor, as well as associate editor of the Johns Hopkins Publishing Group. He joined the magazine's staff in 1992 and covers fine arts, engineering, public health, business, and athletics. A 1976 summa cum laude graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, his work has appeared in many national publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Travel & Leisure, Business Week, Connoisseur, and Advertising Age. He has also taught numerous nonfiction writing courses for the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and is a frequent presenter at writer's conferences.

Senior writer MICHAEL ANFT covers science and medicine for the magazine. During his 25 years as a journalist, he has covered nonprofit organizations nationwide for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, delved into media and political matters and the arts for Baltimore's City Paper, written about pop music for The Baltimore Evening Sun, and penned stories on business for Warfield's. He has also reviewed books for The Washington Post, music for OPTION, and the arts for a host of magazines. He lives in suburban Baltimore with his wife and two children.

MARIA BLACKBURN is senior writer at the magazine. She covers arts and humanities, libraries, and students. Since joining the magazine in 2003, she's written stories about topics ranging from the status of women at Johns Hopkins to book preservation to Baltimore's emerging status as a college town. A 1990 graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, she is a former newspaper reporter who worked at such papers as The Baltimore Sun, The National Enquirer and the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. She likes to write about a wide variety of subjects and to tell stories about interesting people, places and things she finds at Hopkins.

A native of Israel, art director SHAUL TSEMACH earned an MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1984. His studies were supported in part through the Sharett Scholarship, one of Israel's most prestigious arts awards. After graduating he worked as an art director for Ma'ariv, one of Israel's major daily newspapers, where he developed a weekly Style supplement and a monthly House and Garden magazine supplement. Shaul moved to the United States and joined Johns Hopkins's Office of Design and Publications as a graphic designer in 1986; he became art director of Johns Hopkins Magazine six years later. Over the years he has earned several awards from CASE, and his work has been featured in PRINT magazine and in the UCDA's annual show.

DIANNE MACLEOD. Bio to come.

DEBRA GIPS, the webmaster of the magazine's electronic edition, has worked for the Division of Communications & Public Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University for more 20 years. The first ten years, she worked on-site at the university as the division's electronic communication manager. The highlight of those first 10 years with JHU is surely the creation of JHUniverse, the university's gateway to information resources on the World Wide Web. Debra played the lead role in determining the general organization, format, and design of the university's website and served (and continues to serve) as its information manager. Despite all the fun Debra was having as a full-time employee at Hopkins, she moved in 1996 with her husband, Sandy — who had been in training at Hopkins since 1985 — and their two children, Gordon and Julia, to southern New Jersey to begin a new life. For the next 10 years or so, Debra was self-employed as a web communications specialist, providing web services and consulting to the Johns Hopkins University. In the summer of 2007, Debra once again became a full-time employee of the university. As the university webmaster, Debra is online for more hours than she cares to reveal and can be reached via email at dgips@jhu.edu.

Past members of the Hopkins Magazine include ...
Sue De Pasquale, Editor
Elise Hancock, Editor
Melissa Hendricks, Senior Writer
Mary Mashburn, Assistant Editor
Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson, Senior Writer