DOREEN SPICER-DANNELLYAuthor www.spicerackproductionsinc.com Photo Download | Bio Download Writer and producer Doreen Spicer is a native New Yorker of African American and Puerto Rican descent who set sights on Hollywood to offer her multi-cultural perspective to the entertainment business and has found success. Spicer created and independently produced the international hit tween sitcom, The Wannabes…
ED GORDONAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Hard-hitting, inspiring, intelligent, honest, and direct—these are some of the words used to describe the style and approach of Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Ed Gordon. Known for his stellar interactions with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, entertainment, and sports, the veteran journalist is the president of Ed Gordon…
HANNAH PAPPAuthor www.hannahpapp.com Photo Download | Bio Download Writer Hannah Papp has truly lived by the premise that life is research for your novel. Seeking her own moveable feast, she worked diligently from an early age and had experienced 34 different types of jobs by the time she was 28. Her first published work was…
KAREN LASCARISAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Artist and designer Karen Lascaris is the author of In Our Own Image: Treasured African American Traditions, Journeys, and Icons, published in 2001 by Running Press of Philadelphia. She began her career designing and illustrating clothing, footwear, and accessories on the Polo Ralph Lauren Women’s Design Team, eventually…
KATHLEEN TRAINOR, PSY.D.Author www.trainorcenter.com Photo Download | Bio Download Dr. Kathleen Trainor has a Masters Degree in Social Work and a Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology and over thirty years experience working with children and families. She is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, she…
DAVID WARMFLASH, M.D.Author Photo Download | Bio Download David Warmflash M.D. is an astrobiologist, space medicine researcher, and author. He is Director of Medical Research for Mgenuity Corporation where his projects include an augmented reality guidance system for surgical procedures in space environments. David is a consultant for medicine, biology, biotechnology, and space sciences and…
KIMBERLY FREEMAN, PH.D.Author Photo Download | Bio Download Kim Freeman writes fiction, non-fiction, and literary criticism. In addition to her novel, Women of a Native Sun, she is the author of Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel 1881-1976, and she has published in FRIGG, Fog Lifter, New England Fiction’s Meeting House, The Bicycle…
KIRSTEN KASAIAuthor www.kirstenimanikasai.com Photo Download | Bio Download Kirsten Imani Kasai is the author of three novels: The House of Erzulie (Feb. 2018, Shade Mountain Press), Ice Song (2009, Random House) and its sequel Tattoo (2011, Random House), and the audio production Flesh Hell. Her short stories, poetry, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous print and online publications in the USA,…
KIYAH WRIGHTAuthor www.kiyahwright.com Photo Download | Bio Download Kiyah Wright is a 2X Emmy Award-winning celebrity hairstylist and image-maker with over two decades of hair care experience and knowledge. In a career that started with doing hair in her grandmother’s basement, Kiyah Wright parlayed her talent and business savvy to become not only one of…
LAWRENCE JACKSON, PH.D.Author http://english.jhu.edu/directory/lawrence-jackson Photo Download | Bio Download Lawrence Jackson is the author of the award-winning books Chester B. Himes: A Biography (W.W. Norton 2017) and The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics (Princeton 2010). In 2002, he published Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, 1913-1952 (Wiley), and he has written a memoir on…
