Deirdre McDonald Greene (Managing Editor) has worked in publishing for her entire career. She was an editorial assistant at American Politics magazine and at Little, Brown & Co. She moved on to become editorial project manager at a national trade association in Washington, DC; manager of an editorial agency in San Francisco; and a freelance editor for clients such as the United Nations, HarperCollins, the U.S. Institute for Peace, Adobe, and Sage Publishing. In 2004, she co-founded Roaring Forties Press, a book publishing company.