Shirley Neal

SHIRLEY NEALAuthor www.shirleyneal.com Photo Download | Bio Download Shirley Neal is an award-winning TV producer, journalist, and former production & development executive with over 20 years experience in the broadcast, cable, and live event arenas.  Through her Park Hill Entertainment, which she founded in 1994, Neal developed and executive produced programming for The Travel Channel,…

Sundee Frazier

SUNDEE FRAZIERAuthor www.sundeefrazier.com Photo Download | Bio Download Sundee T. Frazier is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent award-winning author of Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It, Brendan Buckley’s Sixth-Grade Experiment, and The Other Half of My Heart. Her other books feature an irresistible 10-year-old entrepreneur. Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire garnered a…

Teneshia Jackson Warner

TENESHIA JACKSON WARNERAuthor www.thebigstretchbook.com Photo Download | Bio Download Teneshia Jackson Warner’s life story has been one of perseverance, diligence, risk-taking and inspiration. Her career spans over 10 years and ranges from multicultural marketing, project management to inspirational life coaching. Teneshia is currently founder and CEO of an award winning multicultural marketing firm, Egami Consulting…

Thembisa S. Mshaka

THEMBISA S. MSHAKAAuthor www.thembisamshaka.com Photo Download | Bio Download Creative executive, author, producer, filmmaker, activist, and entertainment branding specialist Thembisa S. Mshaka has been in love with words, music and media for as long as she can remember. Honored to be appointed the first copy director in Creative Services for BET Networks, Thembisa contributed to…

Tommie Smith, L.H.D.

TOMMIE SMITH, L.H.D.Author Photo Download | Bio Download Tommie Smith began life quietly, born to Richard and Dora Smith on June 6, 1944 in Clarksville, Texas, the seventh of 12 children.  Tommie Smith survived a life-threatening bout of pneumonia as an infant which allowed him to carry out the work that God intended for him.…

Sheetal Prajapati

SHEETAL PRAJAPATIAuthor sheetalprajapati.com Photo Download | Bio Download Sheetal Prajapati is an award-winning artist and educator with twenty years of experience working in or with the world’s leading arts institutions. She has lectured nationally and internationally on topics including art, education and equity, and the future of the arts, at institutions including the Museum of…

Aiesha Drew Halstead

AIESHA DREW HALSTEADAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Aiesha Drew Halstead is the Manager of Curatorial Projects for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. She managed the installation of Kehinde Wiley’s statue Rumors of War in front of the VMFA in fall 2019 as well as the museum’s educational and interpretive programming around…

Tammi Lawson

TAMMI LAWSONAuthor www.nypl.org/staff-profiles/tammi-lawson Photo Download | Bio Download Tammi Lawson is a Curator of the Art & Artifacts Division at the New York Public Library’s renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The collection she oversees was born during the iconic Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and today houses approximately 15,000 works of fine…

jessica Care moore

JESSICA CARE MOOREAuthor jessicacaremoore.com Photo Download | Bio Download jessica Care moore is the CEO of Moore Black Press, Executive Producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist and producer, she was the 2013 Alain Locke Award Recipient from the Detroit Institute…

Shannon Dowler, M.D.

SHANNON DOWLER, M.D.Author shannondowlermd.com Photo Download | Bio Download Professionally, Shannon Dowler, MD is a board-certified Family Physician and Fellow from Asheville, NC and Certified Physician Executive (CPE). An advocate for health equity and the intentional reduction of health disparities, Dr. Dowler maintains a small panel of patients in a primary care walk-in clinic as…