PBG Lifestyle Magazine Team

Kimberly Field – Vice President of Operations

Kimberly Field

Kimberly Field, Vice President of Operations, is an award-winning writer, manager and teacher. She holds degrees in management and education from Palm Beach Atlantic University and Palm Beach Community College, in addition to a broadcasting certification from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting.

A native Floridian, Field has worked extensively with a number of high-end publishers across the Sunshine State, including the Daily Business Review and Florida Lawyer, for which she has garnered a reputation for her in-depth, research-driven...


Chris Hayes – Editor

Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes, Editor, graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in journalism, where his focus on online media and web design led to work with UF's Newszine and The Independent Florida Alligator. Since returning to Palm Beach Gardens, he has taken great strides to involve himself in community events and learn more about the local organizations that make South Florida so unique.

After joining the PBG Lifestyle staff as an Associate Editor in November 2008, Hayes was promoted to Editor several months later, and has since played an integral...


Carrie Scent – Art Director

Carrie Scent
Carrie Scent, Art Director, joins PBG Lifestyle as a professional graphic designer, originally from Michigan, who now lives and works in Vero Beach, Florida. With over sixteen years of experience, she has since started her own business and built a reputation for offering quality design and service to her clients along the Space and Treasure Coast. Whether it is bringing a new look to an established publication or building the layout and design for a magazine or newspaper at its inception, the pride she takes in her work is shown in...

Alicia Donelan – Staff Photographer

Alicia Donelan

Alicia Donelan, Staff Photographer, is a professional photographer originally from Dallas, Texas. She has been involved in photography since she was a teenager and has travelled extensively photographing people from around the world in China, Australia, Europe and Russia to right here in our own backyard.

While living as a freelance photographer in New York, she studied under such artists as Robert Capa, Duane Michals, Hans Neleman, Andrian Piper and Mary Ellen Mark along with noted art critics and historians.

Alicia’s specialty is people.

“I love to hear people’s story...

Lynn Mozena – Staff Photojournalist & Positive Parenting Columnist

Lynn Mozena

Lynn Mozena, Staff Photojournalist & Positive Parenting Columnist, is proud to join the staff of PBG Lifestyle magazine. Originally from the Midwest, Lynn has lived in South Florida the last eight years, where she has established a career in Communications. With a background in music and performance, Lynn developed an interest in Arts & Entertainment Photography and never let go of the camera.

"It's not just a matter of snapping a picture. A photographer's real work is bringing out the best in a picture. When I'm photographing people, I...


Dwana Finelli – Account Executive

Dwana Finelli
Dwana Finelli, Account Executive, grew up in Jupiter, moving here in 1978. She began winning awards in elementary school for creative writing, taking college English and writing courses in middle school, and graduating from Jupiter High in ’93, where she was a part of the literary magazine. She was also published in the Palm Beach Post for winning a poetry contest, and has won several other poetry contests as well. After graduating, she attended The Boca Raton Institute where she studied Massage Therapy and Aromatherapy. At the age of 23, Finelli...

Lauren Delgado – Contributing Writer

Lauren Delgado

Lauren Delgado, Contributing Writer, is a student at the University of Florida majoring in Journalism and minoring in Environmental Studies. Ever since winning an essay contest in the seventh grade, becoming a journalist has been in the back of her mind. After a semester-long stint of pre-veterinarian courses, journalism has been her focus.

Besides writing for PBG Lifestyle magazine, Lauren juggles school, an internship at Home: Living in the Heart of Florida magazine and reporting for The Warrington Times newspaper.

Lauren hopes to someday work for either Newsweek magazine...


Sean Kreps – Tech Tips Columnist

Sean Kreps

Sean Kreps, Tech Tips Columnist, IT Coordinator & owner of ComputerGiant Consulting, began his computing experience at the age of 6 on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, upgraded to an Amiga 1000 in 1985 and has been learning the ins and outs of every computer platform since.

After graduating from Virginia Tech with a BS in Accounting Information Systems he began his tech career during the dot-com boom as a Java Software Engineer at Quansoo. Thankfully his position focused on building web sites and client consulting and not locking himself in...


Doreen Marcial Poreba, Contributing Writer & Photographer

Doreen Marcial Poreba
Doreen Marcial Poreba, APR, Contributing Writer & Photographer, is a communications professional who has had a passion for writing and photography since she was a child. Today, she is an award-winning, accredited public relations professional and photojournalist with more than 25 years of experience working on both sides of the media fence. She launched her career in radio while still in college, then became a television news reporter before shifting into public relations. After working in PR for Northwood University, The Miami Herald and SunFest, in 1997, she founded The PR...

Maureen Rothwell – Astrology Columnist

Maureen Rothwell

Maureen Rothwell, Astrology Columnist, resides in Palm Beach County, is a professional Psychic/Astrologer and fifteen-year member of The American Federation of Astrologers, an organization responsible for establishing and maintaining a high standard of ethics for the legitimate astrologer.

Born with an extraordinary gift, she delights clients all over North America and abroad with her keen insight and ability to connect with the individual. Involved with the community, Maureen has donated time and talent to The Sunny 104.3 "Pretty in the City" events, Susan G. Komen Foundation, American Cancer Society, Leukemia...


Carol Saunders – PBG Style Columnist & Photojournalist

Carol Saunders

Carol Saunders, PBG Style Columnist & Photojournalist, is well known to North Palm Beach County readers. For the past several years she has penned two columns, "Community Chatter" and "Backstage," for the Jupiter Courier and been a frequent contributor to Around Towne, a quarterly business publication based in Stuart.

Saunders also has the distinction of having worked as a writer for two high-powered West Palm Beach television stations: WPTV-Channel 5 and WPEC-Channel 12. She also served as the Public Information Officer for the City of West Palm Beach for nearly five...


Jenna Michael – Contributing Photographer

Jenna Michael - Contributing Photographer
Jenna Michael, Contributing Photographer, was born and raised in sunny Hobe Sound, Florida, and can’t imagine living anywhere else. Her passion for all aspects of the arts has led her to try everything from painting and stone carving to crochet and set design. Jenna first fell in love with photography a photo contest in the second grade. Following high school, she moved to Daytona Beach and attended Daytona State College’s Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, where she earned an AS Degree in Photographic Technology. “I am incredibly excited to advance my knowledge...

Lucia Clements – Contributing Photographer

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Lucia Clements, Contributing Photographer, has been a resident of Palm Beach Gardens since 1995. This self-taught photographer regularly pursues freelance work and has won a range of photography contests. She has had several of her photos printed within various collections, and her photos and written articles are regularly picked up by the local newspapers. Lucia’s passion for photography has spurred her on for more than twenty years. As a stay-at-home mom for her two boys, she used photography to record all their milestones. As an enthusiastic and involved volunteer, she has...

Marilyn Bauer – Contributing Writer

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Marilyn Bauer, Contributing Writer, is an award-winning author, editor and writer who calls South Florida home. She has written for a countless number of major US metropolitan newspapers and several overseas, and her work has appeared in magazines ranging from National Geographic Traveler to Vogue. Over the course of her career she has held staff positions at Harper’s and Harper’s Bazaar and has contributed to a number of travel websites including NationalGeographic.com and NaturalTraveler.com, of which she is part owner. Although her areas of expertise are the arts and travel,...

Terri Schlichenmeyer – Book Review Columnist

Terri Schlichenmeyer
Terri Schlichenmeyer, Book Review Columnist, has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She has worked with more than 200 newspapers and nearly 50 magazines scattered in 46 states, the Virgin Islands and six provinces of Canada. Terri lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 12,000...