Staff, Affiliated Faculty, and Advisory Board Members
Leadership and Management
Brenda M. Greene, Ph.D
Founder and Executive Director
Professor of English, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Charlotte E. Hunter
Chief of Staff
Director, Development and External Affairs
Amber Magruder
Interim 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
Donna Hill
Assistant Professor of Professional Writing
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
Dr. Dale Allender
English Professor of Language and Literacy
California State University, Sacramento
Paul N. Amann
Key Bank, Business Banking Vice President
Patrick A. Buddington
Vice President, Sales & Publishing | Caribbean Life/Schneps Media Group
Bessie R. Edwards
Real Estate Broker, BR Edwards Associates
Richard Jones Jr.
Executive Dean Emeritus
Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
Dr. Valerie Kinloch
Renée and Richard Goldman Dean
University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Dr. Louise Mirrer
President and CEO, New York Historical Society
C. Zawadi Morris
Founder and CEO of The Original Media Group, LLC
Founder and Publisher of The Brooklyn Reader
Dr. Kareen Odate
Assistant Dean for Advising, CUNY School of Medicine
Lawrence Schiller
President and Co-Founder, Norman Mailer Center
Film producer, Director, Screenwriter
Reverend Dr. Shelia Evans-Tranumn
National and International Education Consultant
Richard Wesley
Playwright, Screenwriter
Department of Dramatic Writing, New York University
John Edgar Wideman
Writer
Messer Emeritus Professor of African American Studies and English, Brown University
Marcia White
Founder and President, Personalized Skincare
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