Ginger Doyel is a fourth-generation Annapolitan. She received a B.A. in Leadership Studies from the University of Richmond (www.richmond.edu) in 2001, graduating first in her class from the University's Jepson School of Leadership Studies that year. While at Richmond, she also founded and captained the University's first women's golf team.

Upon graduating, Ginger served as a Research Fellow for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change in Charlottesville, Virginia. While in Charlottesville, she also founded the business Art Fore Golfers, and in doing so, created original golf art for clients along the East Coast.

In 2002, Ginger returned to Annapolis, and became an author and artist. She has written Annapolis Vignettes; Gone to Market: The Annapolis Market House, 1698-2005; The Annapolitan Club: A Tradition of Hospitality Since 1897; and Over the Bridge: A History of Eastport at Annapolis, and she has also illustrated seven books. She is currently in Israel and Palestine, gathering background information and creating illustrations for a book about the region that will be published in late 2010. She has also contributed to The Capital newspaper (her history column won several Historic Annapolis Foundation Preservation Awards) and several magazines. Articles about her work have appeared in the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun. In the summer of 2009, Ginger moved to Washington, D.C., in order to live near her sister, Cathleen, who is in her first year of law school.

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