Deborah Douglas served several years as the paper’s deputy features editor. She developed and launched in titles, and lead award-winning special projects, such as The New Downtown and The Baby Ceiling. She helped launch the Red Streak young adult newspaper and was the paper’s editor in chief. She has written culturally relevant columns for the Sun-Times, including a defense of Don Imus and Clarence Thomas, the breakdown of social norms, child murder and women’s health. Douglas is a 2006 NABJ/Kaiser Family Foundation fellow: She traveled to Tanzania to study malaria, sub-Saharan Africa’s most pressing health issue. A Northwestern University graduate, Douglas is Chicago born, and reared in the Midwest and the South, giving her a soft Southern sensibility with an urban edge. She is also one of the Fearless Voices of HuffingtonPost.com