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A Woman’s History Month Talk With the First Female GPO Director

By Jason Dick and Thomas McKinless

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Davita Vance-Cooks became the Government Publishing Office’s first female and first African American executive director in 2013. Vance-Cooks sat down with Roll Call to discuss the importance of women’s work at the GPO and her own “humbling” place in the agency’s history.

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