Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
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More About Aimee Imundo

Aimee Imundo is an expert in international competition law and policy. She has more than 25 years of experience as a competition lawyer at a top Washington, DC, law firm, as a senior executive with a large multinational company, and now as an international competition policy advisor to the U.S. Government. Aimee has also been recognized as one of the top “100 Women in Antitrust” by the leading global publication in the field. She has served on the leadership of the ABA Antitrust Section in a variety of roles, and is an experienced speaker at antitrust law conferences on international, transactional, and compliance-related topics. She has contributed chapters to the ABA’s major publications on antitrust compliance.
She has been an active supporter of in-house legal pro bono engagement, legal diversity and inclusion, and women’s issues. She initiated an award-winning pro bono medical-legal partnership in Washington DC, and recently served on the D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services.
In recent years, she has returned to her long-held interest in theatre, comedy, and performing. She is on the Board of Directors of the Washington Improv Theatre, is a founding member of the independent improv comedy team Sons n’ Roses, and performs improv comedy, monologues, and stand up under her stage name Aimee Lee Savage.
About Katie

From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.