Maker Directory

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LawMakers

Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Litigator

MusicMakers

Everett Greene

Singer

BusinessMakers

Bezelee Martin

Retail Entrepreneur

MedicalMakers

Dr. Edith Irby Jones

Internal Medicine Physician

EducationMakers

Lula Ford

Education Executive, State Government Appointee, Elementary School Principal

BusinessMakers

Dennis Hightower

Business Professor, Broadcast Executive

MusicMakers

Denyce Graves

Opera Singer

CivicMakers

Amina J. Dickerson

Museum Director

MediaMakers

Lena Williams

Newspaper Reporter

ArtMakers

Shari Carpenter

Filmmaker

StyleMakers

Leonard Davis

Fashion Designer

CivicMakers

Ozell Sutton

Civil Rights Activist, Community Leader

CivicMakers

Gail A. Hansberry

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Photographer

CivicMakers

Thomas Battle

Archivist, Cultural Heritage Chief Executive, Historian

ArtMakers

Ricardo Khan

Stage Director, Artistic Director

EntertainmentMakers

Russell Williams, II

Film Producer

BusinessMakers, MediaMakers

Monique Greenwood

Lodging Entrepreneur, Magazine Lifestyle Editor, Entrepreneur, Publisher

ArtMakers

Sandra Fortune-Green

Ballet Dancer, Dance Instructor

MediaMakers

Frank Washington

Broadcast Chief Executive, Media Executive

CivicMakers

Kathleen E. Bethel

African American Studies Librarian

MedicalMakers

Dr. St. Elmo W. Crawford

Dentist

ArtMakers

Sharon Farmer

Photographer

SportsMakers

Dennis Biddle

Baseball Player

ArtMakers

Lee Ransaw

Fine Artist, Art Professor

CivicMakers

William "Sonny" Walker

Management Consulting Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Activist, Nonprofit Chief Executive

MilitaryMakers

Maj. Walter Sanderson, Jr.

Major

ScienceMakers, EducationMakers

Gloria Anderson

Academic Administrator, Chemist

ScienceMakers

William Walden

Biology Professor, Molecular Biologist

CivicMakers

Vivian R. Jones

Community Leader, Nonprofit Executive

ScienceMakers

Lucius Walker

Mechanical Engineer, Engineering Professor, Education Administrator

BusinessMakers, LawMakers

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.

Economist, Lawyer, Chief Executive Officer

ScienceMakers

Odest Jenkins

Robotics Engineer, Computer Scientist

ScienceMakers

DeAnna Beane

Informal Science Educator

MilitaryMakers

Lt. Col. Joseph Carpenter

Colonel, Military Officer

ScienceMakers

Michael Blakey

Biological Anthropologist

MediaMakers

Denise Rolark-Barnes

Newspaper Publishing Executive

ScienceMakers

Oliver Baker

Physicist

ScienceMakers

William A. Hawkins

Program Director, Math Professor

ScienceMakers

Warren Buck

Physicist

ScienceMakers

Donald Lyons, Sr.

Physicist

MilitaryMakers

Sgt. Maj. Alford McMichael

Sergeant Major

MilitaryMakers

Col. Edward Howard

General

EducationMakers

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

African American History Professor

CivicMakers

Pierpont Mobley

Federal Government Appointee

MilitaryMakers

Maj. Gen. Clifford Stanley

Major General

ScienceMakers

Victor McCrary

Technology Executive

MediaMakers

Jacquie Jones

Film Producer

MediaMakers

Ricki Fairley

Marketing Executive

MediaMakers

Charles Warfield, Jr.

Broadcast Executive

MediaMakers

Gregory Davis

Broadcast Chief Executive