by Dawn Pennington 05/09/08
Dawn Pennington is the Managing Editor of OptionsZone.com and a Product Manager at InvestorPlace Media LLC, where she works closely with many of the top traders in the business to oversee a comprehensive suite of trading and options-trading services.
Prior to joining the editorial team at InvestorPlace in January 2005, she served as Editor-in-Chief of Counseling Today, the flagship newspaper of Alexandria, Va.-based American Counseling Association, which its 65,000 members consistently ranked as their No. 1 membership benefit.
Before that, Dawn served as Director of Development and Communications at A Second Chance Inc., a Pittsburgh-based foster care agency. There, she focused on fundraising through grant-writing, hosting special revenue-raising events and building relationships with various donor bases as well as the local media.
Working in the financial field isn't new to Dawn, as she did project work for Westinghouse Electric Co., Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers, prior to her 1997 graduation from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, where she graduated with honors in Journalism & Communications.
In addition to overseeing OptionsZone.com, she is the managing editor of the following InvestorPlace Media publications:
Ken Trester's Fast Options Profits
Michael Shulman's ChangeWave Shorts
For more articles from Dawn Pennington, go to OptionsZone.com.
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