Our publicity campaigns over the years have offered clients the valuable opportunity to engage with their targeted audience at private events, bookstores, retail stores, tech companies, professional conferences, colleges and universities, TEDx events, and more. Now we are offering speakers beyond their book launch season.
If you are looking for a strong African-American professional speaker to book for a conference keynote, commencement, moderator for a high-level panel, commentary for a cultural or historical docu-series or film, freshman orientation, or workshop facilitator, we can help. Our clients offer dynamic and impactful conversations and presentations that are sure to inspire any audience.
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Janus Adams Emmy Award-winning journalist, historian, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of eleven books, Dr. Janus Adams is the host of public radio’s “The Janus Adams Show” and podcast. Her 19-hour International Women’s Day marathon broadcasts brought her to NPR as the network’s first National Arts Correspondent and opened the New York News Bureau. Indeed, Dr. Adams has been engaged by history and culture since childhood. A northern school desegregation pioneer at 8, she was one of the four children selected to break New York’s de facto segregation in the public schools in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.
A classically-trained pianist, she is a graduate of New York’s High School of Performing Arts. Her master’s is the nation’s first graduate degree in Black Studies. Her honors include Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Shaw University and the State University of New York.
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Jerrold H. Weinberg, MD, FACOG, has been a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist for five decades, with a subspecialty of menopausal medicine since 1999.
He earned honors among his peers with Sinai Hospital of Detroit naming him Attending Physician several times. As director of the Birmingham Menopause Institute, Dr. Weinberg trained hundreds of professionals in menopause medicine through his role as a preceptor at several universities.
For six years, Dr. Weinberg authored a monthly opinion column in the Ob/Gyn News, which had a circulation of 45,000 practitioners. More recently, he had an article published in the Washington Post, and he has an academic article in press, entitled “Lived Experiences of Menopause,” co-authored with Dr. Teresa Sienkiewicz.
Menah Pratt is a scholar-activist, academic, advocate, and womanist. Pratt is the Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity at Virginia Tech. She is also a Professor of Education in the School of Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, with affiliations in Africana Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Department of Sociology. She has almost 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, with a focus on large-scale institutional transformation. She was selected as the 2021 Inclusive Excellence Individual Leadership Award recipient by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. She is the founder of the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conference (11th year) and the Black College Institute at Virginia Tech (6th year). She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa with a major in English and minors in Philosophy and African-American Studies. She received her master’s degree in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree in Sociology from Vanderbilt University. In addition, she earned her Ph.D. and JD from Vanderbilt University. Her research and scholarship focus on diversity issues in higher education. She is the author of three books A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about race, gender, and class in America.
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Dr. Jame’l Rashad Hodges is the Vice President For Student Success And Engagement at Edward Waters College. Boasting of a superlative record for supporting overall student development and achievement as a seasoned and progressive student success and engagement leader in higher education, Dr. Jame’l Hodges is the Vice President for Student Success & Engagement at Edward Waters College (EWC). He has twenty years of experience in the field of Higher Education and has served in leadership positions at the Corporate Office of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; University of Georgia; California State Polytechnic University Pomona; Lehigh University; The Association of Public Land Grant Universities, Tennessee State University and most recently as Associate Vice President for Student Success and Engagement at Virginia State University. As the founder of Jamelevate an interactive workshop designed to provide students with experiential activities for leadership enhancement Dr. Hodges’ mission is to educate, motivate and uplift students from k-12 through college about the fundamentals of leadership.
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