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Ron
Brown
Ron wrote for NYC in 1982. He received an Award for Choreography
at the 1991 American Dance Festival, a National Endowment for
the Arts Choreography Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship
in Choreography. He has danced with the Jennifer Muller/The
Works Dance Co. and the Mary Anthony Dance Theater. He founded
the highly acclaimed company, Ron Brown's Evidence. The New
York Times has called him the "hottest young choreographer
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Nicole
Burrowes
Nicole earned a BA in History from New York University and is
currently pursuing a Ph.D. in History at the City University
of New York's Graduate Center. She has received numerous academic
awards and scholarships, including New York University's President
Award for Volunteerism & Community Service. She has worked
as a field organizer with the Children's Defense Fund/Black
Student Leadership Network, a program assistant at the Rockefeller
Foundation, a teacher in Upward Bound and as a researcher in
the Activist Women's Oral History Project. Nicole is also a
co-founder and member of Sista II Sista, a program for girls
in Brooklyn. She received a 1999 Fund for the City of New York's
"Union Square" award for her grassroots work at Sista.
She wrote for NYC in 1990. |
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Veronica
Chambers
The author of several books, including of Mama's Girl (a 1997
Book of the Month Club Selection), Veronica started her publishing
career with a story in NYC in 1989. A graduate of Simon's Rock
College, she has been a staff writer and editor for Essence,
Premiere, The New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. She is
currently executive editor of Savoy magazine. |
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Loretta Chan
Loretta was a teen writer for NYC from 1992 to 1995. After earning
her BA in Art History from New York University, she worked as
editor for Longitude Books, education program associate for
The New York Council for the Humanities and paralegal for Cravath,
Swaine & Moore and The Port Authority
of New York/New Jersey. She is currently the marketing director
at Youth Communication. |
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Ailin
Chen
Ailin who wrote for NYC in 1989 and 1990, is a Senior Policy Associate for Citizens' Committee for Children (CCC), an independent multi-issue child advocacy organization where she manages a research and advocacy portfolio that includes education, juvenile justice, and youth services. In 2008, she was appointed to the Governor's Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform which has been charged with the task of improving outcomes for court-involved youth. Prior to that, she worked as a staff developer in the New York City public schools, and a teacher for juvenile offenders. She has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, a M.A. in Educational Communication and Technology, and a B.F.A. in Film/TV Production from New York University. |
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Edwidge
Danticat
Edwidge's second book, Krik? Krak!, was a finalist for a National
Book Award in 1995. Her first book, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was
an Oprah's Book Club selection. Her third book, Farming of Bones,
was published in 1998. In an interview in Essence, Edwidge said,
"At 14 I was asked by a New York City-based newspaper,
New Youth Connections, to write about my experience as a new
immigrant…my public writing career began." She also
credits one of her NYC stories as being the nucleus for her
first book. She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an
MFA from Brown University. |
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Latrice
Davis
Latrice, NYC 1992-94, has a degree in Journalism and Communications
from New York University. She has been an intern at Lifetime
Media, PR Newswire, The Courier Journal of Louisville, Ky.,
and at the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. She worked on the editorial
staff of Homework Central and currently works in multimedia
services at the Associated Press. |
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Adrienne
DiScipio
Adrienne graduated from Hunter College with a BA in English
and is currently studying for a Master's in Linguistics at New
York University She has taught bilingual special education,
English-as-a-second-language and family literacy. She is currently
a citizenship teacher with the New York City Board of Education.
Adrienne was an artist for NYC during 1984-85. |
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