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Daleen Berry
| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
San Jose, Calif., The United States |
| website |
http://www.daleenberry.com |
| genre |
Women & Gender Studies, Humor, Mystery & Thrillers
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| influences |
[a:Crossway Books|4189005|Crossway Books|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], [a:Crossway Books|4189005|Crossway Books|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], and more books; travel; family, nature; music; drama |
about this author
Daleen Berry is a national expert in the area of child sex abuse and interpersonal violence, as well as an award-winning author and an accomplished journalist who speaks about these important social topics at conferences around the country. She has spoken at Johns Hopkins University; UC Berkeley, California; and elsewhere. Berry is also an award-winning editor, investigative journalist and public speaker, whose most recent freelance work can be found online at The Daily Beast. Since 1979 she has written more than 3,000 articles that have appeared in regional publications and newspapers across the country. She has been an invited speaker at local and national events, and will join Brenda Clubine (of the documentary "Sin by Silence") in speaking at ABIP’s18th Annual Conference in March 2012. In 2007 Ms. Berry received two second-place awards for her weekly columns from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. One award came in the “Critical Thinking” category for “Many factors involved when mothers kill,” which directly relates to Sister of Silence. The other award came in the “Feature or Humor” category. Ms. Berry also won a 1990 first-place prize for investigative journalism from the West Virginia Press Association for her three-part series on health care costs. In May 2005, Ms. Berry placed second in Fairmont State University’s M.M. Neely Persuasive Speaking Competition, for her speech regarding child sexual abuse and its link to domestic violence. Berry also served as editor of The Columns, FSU’s student-run newspaper, during the Fall 2004 semester. In that leadership position, Berry led her staff to a record number of awards in the Society of Collegiate Journalists’ annual competition. In 1991, Ms. Berry was editor-in-chief of publications she wrote and published for the West Virginia Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and the West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police. Ms. Berry has reported and edited many newspapers during her long career, including The Cumberland Times-News (2006-08); The Tracy Press, (1997-98); The Dominion Post (1997); The Buckhannon Record Delta (1991); The Kingsville Record (1993); The Preston County Journal (1988-91), and The Panther Press (1979-80). She was also an Associated Press stringer in 1994, and her work has been heard on West Virginia Public Radio.
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