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Lee Ann Walling

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Lee Ann Walling was born in Pittsburgh and raised in the suburbs of Dallas. She entered the University of Texas as a journalism major the same month Richard Nixon resigned, and her dream of becoming a writer was quickly redirected by the demands of daily deadlines. Her first job out of college was reporting and anchoring the noon news at a CBS television station in Odessa, Texas.

After thirteen years as a journalist in Texas and Delaware, she was hired to manage the statewide campaign of Ruth Ann Minner—a high school dropout with an inspiring story who would go on to become Delaware’s first female governor. Lee Ann served as her chief of staff and helped shape her land-use and environmental policies.

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The Salt and Light Express
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