Cindy Handler is a native of St. Louis, Missouri whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Redbook, Huffington Post and a host of other national publications; she has written about subject matter contained in A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany in The Washington Post and Northjersey.com. She is currently a writer for The USA Today Network in northern New Jersey whose features have appeared regularly in The Record newspaper, online at Northjersey.com and in Gannett-owned newspapers throughout the country. Formerly, she was editor-in-chief of multiple USAT Network local magazines. She is a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Handler has three grown children and lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband Harry and Leo, their senior goldendoodle.