Donna Hill
Executive Director
Associate Professor of Professional Writing

Brenda M. Greene, Ph.D
Founder and Executive Director, Emeritus
Professor of English, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Charlotte E. Hunter
Chief of Staff
Director, Development and External Affairs

Amber Magruder
Director, Operations and Literary Programs

Lea Byrd
Executive Assistant
Communications Associate

AFFILIATED FACULTY
Victoria A. Chevalier
Professor of English

Magda Desgranges, PhD
Assistant Professor | African Diaspora Literature
Department of English | Medgar Evers College

Susan Alice Fischer
Professor of English

Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Associate Professor of English

Lystra Huggins, PhD
Assistant Professor, Academic Advisor
Freshman Year Program/Medgar Evers College

Shelagh Patterson, PhD
Lecturer Doctoral Schedule for English Composition and Rhetoric
Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York

Mudiwa Pettus
Assistant Professor of English Comp. and Rhetoric

Joanna Sit
Professor of Creative Writing

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Tai Allen
Poet/Singer & Creative Director

Jennifer Baker
Editorial Director
Storyhouse/Penguin Random House

Patrick Buddington
Vice President, Sales & Publishing
Caribbean Life/Schneps Media Group

Dr. Brenda Greene
Founder and Executive Director, Emeritus
Center for Black Literature

F. Richard Hurley, Esq.
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Medgar Evers College

Dr. Peniel Joseph
Author, Professor of Public Affairs; Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values;
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy/Experience, The University of
Texas at Austin - The LBJ School of Public Affairs

Nichol King
Community Banking Business Lead for JP Morgan Chase

C. Zawadi Morris
Founder and CEO of The Original Media Group, LLC; Founder and Publisher of BK Reader

Dr. Kareen Odate
Assistant Dean for Advising at the CUNY School of Medicine

John Knight Smith
Vice President, Design Studio | Marketing | Corporate Affairs
Blackstone

Richard Wesley
Playwright, Screenwriter, Department of Dramatic Writing,
New York University