Staff, Affiliated Faculty, Advisory Board Members, and Interns
Leadership and Management
LEADERSHIP
Brenda M. Greene, Ph.D
Founder and Executive Director
Professor of English, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Clarence V. Reynolds
Director of Literary Programs
Editor-in-Chief, Killens Review of Arts & Letters
MANAGEMENT
Amber Magruder, Project Manager
April R. Silver, Director, Communications and Marketing
Kel Spencer, Director, Re-Envisioning Our Lives through Literature (R.O.L.L.) Program
Lea Byrd, Communications and Marketing Associate
Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Elders Writing Workshop Leader
Donna Hill, Fiction Writing Workshop Leader
AFFILIATED FACULTY
- Victoria A. Chevalier - Associate Professor of English vchevalier@mec.cuny.edu
- Susan Alice Fischer - Professor of English safischer@mec.cuny.edu
- Donna Hill - Assistant Professor of Professional Writing dohill@mec.cuny.edu
- Darrel Alejandro Holnes - Assistant Professor of English dholnes@mec.cuny.edu
- Mudiwa Pettus - Assistant Professor of English Comp. and Rhetoric mpettus@mec.cuny.edu
- Joanna Sit - Associate Professor of Creative Writing jsit@mec.cuny.edu
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
- Dr. Dale Allender | English Professor of Language and Literacy, California State University, Sacramento
- Patrick A. Buddington | Chief Marketing Officer, CaribZone Media
- 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
- 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

CBL Student Interns (2022 - 2023)
Cassidy Ridgeway
Malik Brizan-Reed
Eshana France
Tamara Patterson

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