Maker Directory

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BusinessMakers

Barbara Bowles

Investment Manager

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

Playwright, High School English Teacher, Theater Professor, Theater Director, Arts Administrator

CivicMakers, BusinessMakers

Fred Davis

Insurance Entrepreneur, City Council Member, Civil Rights Leader, Entrepreneur

ArtMakers

Bennetta Nelson West

Arts Administrator

BusinessMakers

Cheryl McKissack Felder

Architect

ArtMakers

Shirley Ann Woodson Reid

Painter, Arts Administrator

EducationMakers, LawMakers, ArtMakers

Robert C. Johnson, Jr.

Playwright, Africana Studies Professor, Lawyer

ArtMakers

Robert "Buck" Brown

Painter, Cartoonist

BusinessMakers

Robert R. Lavelle

Banker, Real Estate Agent

BusinessMakers

Chris Simmons

Corporate Executive

ArtMakers

Ishmael Reed

Fiction Writer

BusinessMakers

Robert C. Davidson, Jr.

Entrepreneur

LawMakers, BusinessMakers

Don M. Roman, Sr.

Lawyer, Financial Executive