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Sally Ruth Bourrie has been a writer for more than thirty years. She contributed heavily to a book on the history of corporate giant Motorola, and pitched and sold more than 2,000 features, articles, white papers, advertorials, book, and web content on topics ranging from business and technology to the arts and gardening. She has written for “The Boston Globe,” the “Chicago Tribune,” “The Oregonian,” “The Denver Post,” and “The Dallas Morning News.” Her work has also appeared in the “Plain Dealer Magazine,” “Chicago” magazine, “Northwest Woman,” “Colorado Business,” and “Alaska Airlines” magazine; trade publications such as “Cable World” and “Wireless Week”; and digital media including Medium, NASDAQ.com, Newsweek.com, Barnes and Noble digital library. She also contributed more than 1,000 biographies and object articles to the J. Paul Getty Museum website. Sally served as senior editor for the permanent collections at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she oversaw the first new guidebook to the collection in more than twenty years, along with creating the first strategic plan for its award-winning digital catalogues, Online Editions, supporting the program in becoming fully sustainable within the institution. She oversaw the editing and production of one of the most complicated catalogues ever produced at the Gallery and which was created both in print and online: Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. She began her career at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she worked as a curatorial assistant in the Exhibitions and Paintings Departments, armed with her new master's degree in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California. She is proud to have written the first museum exhibition catalogue on the twentieth-century California wood engraver, Paul Landacre, for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She went to California from New York, where she had received her bachelor's degree as a double major in Political Science and Art History at Vassar College. She is a writer-editor at the Farm Credit Administration.

The Best of America – Captured in Print for the First Time

Oregon Loves New York: A Story of American Unity After 9/11 documents an important event in American history that is little known: the Flight for Freedom, an achievement unequaled by any other community in the United States. Written by Sally Ruth Bourrie with a new edition in 2023, Oregon Loves New York is available online at independent bookstores and major retailers.

Subjects: Education, KM