Debra Z. Roth, an ACC content contractor, has been a journalist, including freelance, and a communications marketing practitioner. Her news stories, features, and editorials have been published in The Washington Post, Newsday, magazines, websites, and aired on broadcast. And she has led international marcomm for non- and for-profits, including the YWCA USA, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the National AIDS Fund (now AIDS United), and worked at PR firms, including the Academy for Educational Development (now fhi 360). Her clients have included the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, US Department of Justice, Georgetown University Hospital, and the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation.