Maker Directory

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SportsMakers

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley

Foundation Chief Executive, Track and Field Athlete, Nonprofit Executive

EducationMakers

Barbara Farmer

Elementary School Principal, Education Professor

ArtMakers

Elma Lewis

Theater Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Pauline C. Morton

Civic Leader, Home Economist

CivicMakers

Dorothy Height

Civic Leader

ArtMakers

Doris Jones

Artistic Director, Dance Instructor

EducationMakers

Helen McDowell

Lodging Entrepreneur, High School English Teacher

PoliticalMakers

Freddie Lucas

Business Consultant, Lobbyist

LawMakers

Amy Robertson Goldson

Entertainment Lawyer

CivicMakers

Wilhelmina Rolark

Foundation Chief Executive

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Mary T. Christian

State Delegate

MediaMakers

Jocelyn Dorsey

Television Producer, Television Reporter

ArtMakers

Pearl Cleage

Playwright, Fiction Writer

EducationMakers

Mary Hatwood Futrell

Academic Administrator, Education Chief Executive

StyleMakers

Olive Lee Benson

Personal Care Entrepreneur, Salon Owner

EducationMakers

Elizabeth B. Rawlins

Academic Administrator, Education Professor, Elementary School Teacher

CivicMakers

Valerie Richardson Jackson

Civic Leader

LawMakers, CivicMakers

Lynn Jones Huntley

Civil Rights Lawyer, Foundation Executive

CivicMakers

Effie Lee Morris

Library Administrator

EducationMakers

Rachel Noel

Education Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Mary Cherry

Production Worker, Publisher

LawMakers

Elaine Jones

Civil Rights Lawyer

EducationMakers

Ione Teresa Vargus

Academic Administrator, African American Studies Professor

LawMakers

The Honorable Frankie Freeman

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner

ArtMakers

Billie Allen

Actress, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Fiction Writer

PoliticalMakers, EducationMakers

The Honorable Hazel O'Leary

Cabinet Appointee, University President

ArtMakers

Naomi Long Madgett

Poet, English Professor

EducationMakers

Joyce Moore Gray

Education Consultant, Principal

BusinessMakers

Paula Ann Sneed

Corporate Executive

EducationMakers

Maxine B. Mimms

Academic Administrator, Education Professor

CivicMakers

Marlene Randall

City Government Administrator

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Patricia Turner

Middle School Teacher, Civil Rights Activist

MediaMakers

Sarah-Ann Shaw

Television News Reporter

BusinessMakers

Elyse White

Travel Agent, Medical Social Worker

MedicalMakers

Dr. Josephine English

Gynecologist

PoliticalMakers

Florence Farley

Visual Artist, Psychology Professor, Mayor, City Council Member

CivicMakers

Wenda Weekes Moore

Civic Leader

BusinessMakers

Lillian Lambert

Business Chief Executive, Entrepreneur

ScienceMakers

Georgia Mae Dunston

Geneticist

ScienceMakers

Eleanor Jones

Math Professor, Mathematician

EntertainmentMakers

Jasmine Guy

Actress

ScienceMakers

Arlene Maclin

Physicist, Academic Administrator

ScienceMakers

Linda Hayden

Mathematician, Educator

ScienceMakers

Camellia Moses Okpodu

Molecular Biologist, Plant Biochemist

ScienceMakers

Marian Johnson-Thompson

Molecular Virologist

MedicalMakers

Dr. Vivian Pinn

Medical Director

MediaMakers

Donna Byrd

Publisher

CivicMakers

Margot Copeland

Corporate Executive

MediaMakers

Hazel Trice Edney

Journalist