JUDY ALEXANDER
San Antonio Woman contributor Judy Alexander can’t think of any topic she’d rather write about than money. For as many years as she can remember, the writer/editor/communications consultant has been drawn back to financial writing again and again, despite a diverse communications career that includes employee communications, publications management, marketing and investor relations for some of the country’s best-known companies. “Like it or not, money is a thread that runs through almost every activity and relationship in life, but managing it effectively requires specific knowledge. I think that I continue to research and write about financial topics as much to help myself as to help others,” she says. Alexander’s look at debt management strategies in this issue’s Dollars and Sense article provides the kind of practical and easy-to-understand financial information that she has always sought out for herself. Years of financial writing experience tell her that readers want it too.

ROLE MODEL COLUMNIST:
PAULA ALLEN
Profiling young women of achievement for the Role Model feature in SAN ANTONIO WOMAN is a change of pace for PAULA ALLEN, who has written about San Antonio’s past since 1992 for a question-and-answer column on local history in the San Antonio Express-News. She is also the author of the recently published book, San Antonio Then and Now, a retrospective in text and photographs. “Smart, strong women have always been a part of San Antonio’s history,” she says. “It has been a pleasure to meet so many among the city’s next generation of leaders.” A Texan since 1985, Allen has served on the advisory committee for the San Antonio Remembered programs on KLRN-TV and is working on the downtown section of a forthcoming historical guidebook.

BIZ COACH COLUMNIST:
JUDI CRAIG, PH.D., MCC, is a familiar writer to San Antonioans. Writing SAN ANTONIO WOMAN’S BizCoach feature, she brings her expertise to discuss a variety of business issues and challenges.  “I want my articles to give people nitty-gritty, practical strategies they can begin putting into practice as soon as they finish reading them,” she says. From her perspective as a clinical psychologist, her Family Matters syndicated column appeared in the San Antonio Light and then the Express-News every Sunday for 20 years.  After becoming a Master Certified Coach in 1996, she developed a successful executive coaching practice with local and national clients.  Currently she specializes in coaching attorneys to re-engineer their law practices by focusing on productivity, client development, staffing and profitability issues.

ASK PRISCILLA COLUMNIST:
PRISCILLA KOHUTEK says she’s a very lucky person: “I get to do all my favorite things at once — writing, decorating and dishing out advice all rolled into one. I love my job!” In SAN ANTONIO WOMAN, she answers readers’ decorating queries in her Ask Priscilla column, published internationally for 15 years, while covering a variety of home decor topics in her articles for SAN ANTONIO AT HOME. She says the readers’ questions keep her on her toes, and the stories demand up-to-the-minute facts. She never stops reading and studying current trends and frequently consults with a battery of experts. “You can never know too much about your field,” she says. “There’s always something new and innovative going on in the design world, and I want to be on top of it. Our readers deserve the best I can give them.”

GIVING BACK COLUMNIST:
KAREN KOVLIVOSKY'S magazine writing career began in Alaska, where she was born and raised. Her first article was a profile of Iditarod winner Rick Swenson for Mushing magazine. Today she writes SAN ANTONIO WOMAN’s Giving Back feature, covering a different nonprofit organization in each issue — this time spotlighting Triple H Equitherapy, which uses horses to improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities. “I have a real heart for nonprofits and the people behind them,” she says. “I love finding out how they were called to do what they do. It’s inspiring to learn about people who are so passionate about their work and so dedicated to helping others. It’s rewarding to help tell their stories.” In addition to freelance writing her favorite job these days is being the mother of Ryan, her 15-month-old daughter.

FOCUS ON FOOD COLUMNIST :
PAT MOZERSKY, who writes Focus on Food, says that recipes are her bread and butter but what really piques her interest is delving into other aspects of a recipe, researching its istory or the culture from which it comes. “Learning about the foods of a country affords us a greater understanding of its people, its geography, customs and the historical influences that have molded their cuisine,” she says. As a former science major, she has been intrigued by the technical aspects of cooking and baking – why and how a recipe works – but she is continuing to learn more and more about the art of presentation as she works with photographer Vernon Wentz to prepare and style the food for the magazine.

FAMILY ISSUES COLUMNIST :
ROSEMARY J. STAUBER, who writes the Family Issues column for SAN ANTONIO WOMAN, chooses topics based on her own experiences and those of her family, questions that clients bring and topics about which she is curious, especially those focusing on women and families. Her first published piece was written for the premier issue of the magazine in November /December 2002. Recent articles have dealt with grief, the mental health of a loved one, weight loss strategies and collaborative divorce. Stauber’s interest in women’s issues, empowerment and enhancement was intensified by her work as executive director of the Bexar County Women’s Center in the 1970s and ‘80s. She began private practice as a clinical psychologist in 1988.