Ada Brownell is the author of ten books. She has written fhundreds of artaicles for Christian publications since and spent much15 years as a reporter for The Pueblo Chieftain in Colo.
She and her husband have five children, one in heaven, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
EDUCATION
• B.S. Degree in Mass Communications (with distinction), 1984, University of Southern Colorado, now Colorado State University at Pueblo
• University of Colorado Mini Medical School, certificate, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1996
• Certificate of Ministry, Berean College, Springfield, MO, 1992
• Dorothy C. Haskins, “Writing for Christian Publications,” 1962
• Fiction Writing, American School of Writing, 1966.
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EMPLOYMENT
• Free lance writer
• Reporter/news writer/ journalist, mostly at The Pueblo Chieftain in Pueblo, Colo.;
● Also worked a short time as reporter for The Leadville Herald Democrat, Leadville, Colo. (1960s), and as a correspondent for The Grand Junction (Colo.) Daily Sentinel (1960).
●Editor, The Pentecostal Advocate, Rocky Mountain District newspaper for the Assemblies of God, 1970
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• American Christian Fiction Writers
• Ozarks Chapter of American Christian Writers
• Communication Workers of America AFL- CIO
HONORS AND AWARDS
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• Colorado Psychiatric Society, 1998 media awareness award for sensitivity and insight in reporting issues of mental illness.
• Nominated for the American Psychiatric Society’s writing award in 1995 and in 1996.
• Ozarks Chapter of American Christian Writers, second, devotion contest, 2009
• Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters, first-place, environment, 1994
• Nominated for the Public Health Reporter 1994 Awards, AMC Cancer Research Center
• Finalist, Religion News Writers Association, Louis Cassels Memorial Award, 1989
• Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, first, news feature, 1984
• Layman’s National Bible Committee, finalist, Journalism Student Editorial Contest, 1982
• We Write of Colorado, first, 1973 humorous division
• Easter Seals, Project Linus, certificate of merit, for dedication, generosity and devotion to disabled Puebloans, 1997
• Colorado Press Women, juvenile writing and editing, second, 1966
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