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Kimberly Van Ginkel is 5th-generation Iowan. Her meandering career path has included TV Programmer, Newspaper Webmaster, and Printing CIO. She divvies up her time between gaming, coding, researching, logic puzzles, crocheting, staring into the abyss, baking cookies, and a flagrant lack of exercise.

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