Maker Directory

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BusinessMakers

Barbara Bowles

Investment Manager

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

SportsMakers

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley

Foundation Chief Executive, Track and Field Athlete, Nonprofit Executive

EducationMakers

Barbara Farmer

Elementary School Principal, Education Professor

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

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

MediaMakers

Dorothy B. Gilliam

Newspaper Columnist

CivicMakers

Pauline C. Morton

Civic Leader, Home Economist

LawMakers

Rita Aliese Fry

Public Defender

CivicMakers

Dorothy Height

Civic Leader

EducationMakers

Helen McDowell

Lodging Entrepreneur, High School English Teacher

ArtMakers

Bennetta Nelson West

Arts Administrator

CivicMakers

Ann Cooper

Civic Leader

PoliticalMakers

Freddie Lucas

Business Consultant, Lobbyist

CivicMakers

Wilhelmina Rolark

Foundation Chief Executive

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Mary T. Christian

State Delegate

EducationMakers

Mary Hatwood Futrell

Academic Administrator, Education Chief Executive

LawMakers

The Honorable Debra James

State Supreme Court Judge

BusinessMakers

Cheryl McKissack Felder

Architect

ArtMakers

Shirley Ann Woodson Reid

Painter, Arts Administrator

CivicMakers

Mildred Bond Roxborough

Association Executive

CivicMakers

Valerie Richardson Jackson

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Frances Hooks

Civic Leader

LawMakers, CivicMakers

Lynn Jones Huntley

Civil Rights Lawyer, Foundation Executive

CivicMakers

Effie Lee Morris

Library Administrator

EducationMakers

Lynn Carol Allen

Education Administrator, Gymnastics Coach

EducationMakers

Angeles Echols

Education Chief Executive

EducationMakers

Rachel Noel

Education Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Mary Cherry

Production Worker, Publisher

CivicMakers

Julia Bond

Librarian

LawMakers

Elaine Jones

Civil Rights Lawyer

LawMakers

The Honorable Frankie Freeman

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner

LawMakers

Jane Bond Moore

Law Professor

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

CivicMakers

Eva Evans

Association Chief Executive, School Superintendent

EducationMakers

Joyce Moore Gray

Education Consultant, Principal

MediaMakers

Lynn Norment

Magazine Editor

EducationMakers

Maxine B. Mimms

Academic Administrator, Education Professor

ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Elaine Flake

Pastor

CivicMakers

Marlene Randall

City Government Administrator

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Patricia Turner

Middle School Teacher, Civil Rights Activist

SportsMakers

Rochelle Stevens

Track and Field Athlete

CivicMakers

Maxine Smith

Executive Secretary, Foreign Languages Professor, Civil Rights Activist, State Government Employee

CivicMakers

Chrystine Ramsey Shack

Civic Leader, Education Executive

MusicMakers

Ann Yancy

Gospel Singer

BusinessMakers

Elyse White

Travel Agent, Medical Social Worker

MedicalMakers

Dr. Josephine English

Gynecologist

EducationMakers

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Academic Administrator, Black Women\'s Studies Professor