Maker Directory

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MusicMakers

Irving Burgie

Songwriter, Performer

MediaMakers

Madeleine Moore Burrell

Marketing Executive

MediaMakers

Geoff Brown

Journalist

StyleMakers

Stephen Burrows

Fashion Designer

LawMakers

Stephen Robinson

Lawyer, Federal District Court Judge

MediaMakers

Danny Bakewell, Sr.

Broadcast Entrepreneur

MediaMakers

Sheila Robinson

Marketing Chief Executive, Publisher

MediaMakers

Tai Beauchamp

Journalist, Entrepreneur

MusicMakers

Terence Blanchard

Trumpet Player, Music Composer

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Willie L. Brown

Mayor, State Assemblyman

MediaMakers

Barbara Rodgers

Television News Anchor

CivicMakers

Denise Bradley-Tyson

Marketing Executive, Entrepreneur, Civic Leader

LawMakers

Paulette Brown

Lawyer

ArtMakers

Ishmael Reed

Fiction Writer

MediaMakers

Leonard Burnett, Jr.

Magazine Publishing Entrepreneur, Magazine Publishing Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Charles M. Blow

Journalist

MediaMakers

Jerry Rushin

Radio Station Manager

MediaMakers

Bobby Bennett

Radio DJ

MusicMakers

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Singer, Actress

CivicMakers

Kathleen Bertrand

Jazz Singer, Nonprofit Executive

SportsMakers

Oscar Robertson

Basketball Player

BusinessMakers

Gregory Baranco

Auto Sales Entrepreneur

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Doris Bunte

State Representative, City Government Appointee

BusinessMakers

Sallie Ann Robinson

Chef, Culinary Historian

MilitaryMakers

David Richards

Paratrooper, chief warrant officer, Military Officer

MediaMakers

Marita Rivero

Television Station General Manager

LawMakers, CivicMakers

Laurie Robinson Haden

Corporate Lawyer, Nonprofit Executive

ArtMakers

Phylicia Rashad

Actress

MusicMakers

Andrea Bradford

Opera Singer, Corporate Executive, Nonprofit Executive

MusicMakers

Dianne Reeves

Jazz Singer

MusicMakers

Isisara Bey

Entertainment Executive

EntertainmentMakers

Richard Roundtree

Film Actor

PoliticalMakers

Donna Brazile

Political Party Executive

BusinessMakers

Franklin D. Raines

Corporate Executive, Lawyer

ArtMakers

Nora Brooks Blakely

Artistic Director, Playwright

BusinessMakers

Dee Robinson

Entrepreneur

ScienceMakers

Robert Bragg

Physics Professor, Physicist

MediaMakers

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Author, Journalist

BusinessMakers

Kenneth Bacon

Corporate Executive

ReligionMakers

Reverend Matthew Southall Brown, Sr.

Religious Leader

BusinessMakers

Joyce Roche

Marketing Executive, Nonprofit Executive

MediaMakers

Carolyne S. Blount

Magazine Editor

MediaMakers

James M. Blount

Newspaper Publisher

MilitaryMakers

Annette Benging

Civilian Administrator

SportsMakers

John Randle

Football Player

ArtMakers

Lou Bellamy

Artistic Director

MilitaryMakers

Admiral J. Paul Reason

Naval Officer

LawMakers

Rex Butler

Lawyer

MusicMakers

Sugar Blue

Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Voza Rivers

Theater Director