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A science/medical writer for 25 years, Ruth Papazian developed a heart-health magazine for American Heart Association and a public safety web portal for APBNews.com, a pioneering online news service. She also wrote public education materials on emerging research linking folic acid deficiency and neural tube defects that ultimately changed public health policy in the US, Canada and UK to require folic acid food fortification, and prevented thousands of babies from being born with spina bifida and anencephaly. Ruth knew she needed a career switch when it became verboten to cover Hillary Clinton’s health issues in 2016. A lifelong political junkie, she transferred her skills to political consulting. As flipping NYC red is a fever dream—in part, because the local GOP is weak and inept—she works with insurgent moderate Democrats to unseat progressive incumbents.