KENDIS GIBSONAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Kendis Gibson is a multiple national Emmy award-winning journalist. Over his decades-long career, he has covered some of the biggest stories impacting our world. He was one of the first journalists at ground zero following the terrorist attacks on 9/11, escaping only minutes before the first tower fell.…
CINDY RUNGER Author Photo Download | Bio Download Cindy Runger is the author of The Imperial Order of Mystics and a Pacific Northwest Writers Association Award winner. Although Cindy spent decades as a lawyer and business executive, she has been writing ever since she was first able to grip a crayon. When not strategizing about…
KATEY TAYLORAuthor www.kateytaylor.com Photo Download | Bio Download Katey Taylor is a writer and a poet whose poems have appeared in Dark Lit magazine, Brave Voices magazine, and Fauxmoir. She has been interviewed by the Just Us Girls Blog and has served as a SWAAY magazine contributor, where her personal essay “When First Loves Becomes First Abuse” was selected…
DONNA ORIOWO, LICSW, CSTAuthor www.donnaoriowo.com Photo Download | Bio Download Dr. Donna Oriowo (oreo-whoa!) LICSW, CST is an award-winning DEI advocate, international speaker and certified sex and relationship therapist in the Washington, D.C. metro area. She is the owner of a private practice, AnnodRight, through which she works with Black women on issues related to…
PATRICK DOUGHERAuthor www.godbodyart.com Photo Download | Bio Download Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Patrick Dougher is a self-taught fine artist, musician, poet and actor. He has performed and recorded with Sade, the Grammy award-winning Dan Zanes and many others. He has played drums with many notable reggae artists, such as Black Uhuru’s Michael…
DEIRDRE HOLLMANAuthor www.blackcomicscollective.com Photo Download | Bio Download Deirdre Hollman is the founder of the Black Comics Collective, a cultural, educational, publishing and digital forum for connecting comic creators of color with the youth and communities in New York City. She is also a doctoral student in social studies education at Teachers College, Columbia University.…
TIFFANY YUAuthor tiffanyyu.com Photo Download | Bio Download Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise that aims to elevate disability pride, and a content creator with 170k+ followers across platforms. She is a 3x TEDx speaker and has been named a TikTok API (Asian & Pacific Islander) Trailblazer and…
VANESSA M. REISER, LCSWAuthor tellatherapist.net Photo Download | Bio Download Vanessa Reiser is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida. She is a psychotherapist and the founder of the nonprofit TellaTherapist.org. She is also a long-distance runner and two-time Ironman who is best known for running the…
GINA BREEDLOVEAuthor ginabreedlove.com Photo Download | Bio Download gina Breedlove calls herself an abolitionist for the lost parts of the self. She is a grief and joy doula, a guide for the soul’s journey. Over the past 30 years, she has traveled all over the world performing in concerts and musical theater and holding rituals…
YONG KIMAuthor www.seoulsausage.com Photo Download | Bio Download Yong Kim was born in Suwon, Korea, and was six years old when his family immigrated to the United States. His father was part of the first group of engineers to set up the Samsung Electronics branch in Silicon Valley. The family of four had no relatives…
