I started with Patch as the copy editor for 11 Patch sites: Alameda, Albany, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Hercules, Newark, Piedmont, Pinole, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City. Currently I'm the guest editor at Piedmont Patch and community editor at Alameda Patch. Questions? dixiemjordan@gmail.com.

Before coming to Patch, I was the editor/publisher of Parents' Press, a magazine for Bay Area parents, for more years than I like to remember. Before that, I was news editor at the Contra Costa Times and a reporter at various Northern California newspapers. 

I'm a fifth generation Californian who has lived in the East Bay most of my life and a graduate of UC Berkeley. For fun, I volunteer on archaeology digs, mostly in Ireland and the Southwest.

I live with a gorgeous but none-too-bright springer spaniel and an aging, opinionated cat. My brilliant and beautiful daughter, Jenny, is a school psychologist in Los Angeles.