Meet the W2Writers

Meet the W2W Magazine Editorial Committee and Contributing Writers who volunteer their time and talent to bring the W2W Community articles that educate, entertain, inform and inspire. The W2W Editorial Committee members not only lend their writing talents to the magazine but also develop and direct the creation of each W2W Magazine issue.

In This Issue:

JULIA ADILMAN,W2W Magazine Contributing Writer

I am a senior in high school who has a deep love for storytelling. I have been an intern at a local video production company in Reading, VA Productions.

MORGAN WELLIVER, W2W Magazine Contributing Writer

I am a Sophomore at the University of Miami in the Frost School of Music studying Music Therapy with minors in Psychology and Spanish. BETH BOWERS + ANA AMARANTE-CRAIG, Partners, HGSK Law Firm, W2W Magazine Contributing Writers EMILY A. BRANCH, MFA, W2WMagazine Contributing Writer JENNIFER GOLDSMITH CERRA, Director of Communications with Herbein + Company, W2W Magazine Editorial Committee

I am a proud North American! Born in Canada, I’ve spent the past 22 plus years in the U.S. Married to Reading High teacher Frank Cerra and mom of Exeter High Class of 2023 member Luke, I love writing and editing almost as much as I love Canadian food classics like Swiss Chalet chicken and Tim Horton donuts. When I’m not busy trying to stay fit as a result, I’m the Director of Communications at Herbein + Company, Inc.

CAITLIN DEGLER, Vice President, Customers Bank, W2W Magazine Contributing Writer SARAH MCDANIEL, VP of Sales Management, Ethosource,W2W Magazine Contributing Writer

I proudly hold the honor of Berks County’s Longest Drive with a 3 Wood, from the reds, on a hole that hooks left. While running, I can down a football sized burrito and still manage to hold a respectable pace. Long ago, at the largest furniture trade show in the country, I gleefully had my picture taken with Bono…who turned out to be a hired impersonator. Years later, while in a parking garage on Broadway in New York, I stood next to Kiefer Sutherland and audibly remarked, “There’s no way that’s him. That guy is too tall and scrawny.” Moments later, the man walked to a Rolls Royce and the parking attendant said, “That was Kiefer Sutherland.” My foot fits nicely in my mouth, and my favorite food is rice.

CHRISTIE GANAS, MD, Tower Health Medical Group Gynecology – Exeter DeMoss Road, W2W Magazine Contributing Writer KIRSTEN P. HAAS, Executive Director of Girls on the Run Berks County, W2W Magazine Managing Editor

I’ve been writing since I could hold a crayon. My grade-school classics include “Anne’s Horse”and “The Devil and the Crack in the Sidewalk” and I am an award-winning poet and newspaper journalist. High school awards count! I am a native of Hawaii (not native in the ancestral sense, native in the “I was born there” sense); grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia and have lived in Berks County since 1998. I love college football, specifically my alma mater, the 2021 National Champion Georgia Bulldogs (Go Dawgs! Sic ’em!) and also enjoy JEOPARDY! (not just because I was on it!), reading, running (sort of), writing and vodka martinis.

KAREN KLEIN, Principal, Fulcrum Information Resources, W2W Magazine Editorial Committee RACHAEL ROMIG, Senior Director of Events & Special Programs, Greater Reading Chamber Alliance, W2W Magazine Editor-In-Chief MONICA RUSH, Director of Rehabilitation Services, Wound Care, Residency and Dental, Penn State Health St. Joseph, W2W Magazine Editorial Committee

I was born and raised in Berks County where I attended Central Catholic High School. I moved towards Philadelphia for nursing school where I met my husband, Stephen. We settled back in Berks County where I have been employed by Penn State Health St. Joseph for 33 years. We have three grown daughters and we all share the same love and passion for travel. I also enjoy reading, being active and recently learned to golf during the pandemic.

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