Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

Jazz and Blues Poet, African American Studies Professor, English Professor

LawMakers

Adjoa Aiyetoro

Civic Activist, Civil Rights Lawyer, Lawyer

LawMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Rodney Slater

Transportation Lawyer, Cabinet Appointee

EducationMakers

Theodore C. Landsmark

University President

ArtMakers

Jason Miccolo Johnson

Photographer

CivicMakers

Joyce Ladner

Sociologist, Academic Administrator, Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Walter Hill, Jr.

Archivist, Historian, African American History Professor

MediaMakers

William Raspberry

Newspaper Columnist

MusicMakers

B. B. King

Blues Guitarist

EducationMakers

Carl Edwin Anderson

Academic Administrator

CivicMakers

Ruth Wells

Community Leader

CivicMakers

Clyde Martin

Regional Sales Manager, Civic Activist, Community Activist

ReligionMakers, EducationMakers

The Honorable Michael A. Battle

Theologian, College President

MediaMakers

Roger Wilkins

Newspaper Columnist

ReligionMakers

Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr.

Civil Rights Activist, Pastor

BusinessMakers, StyleMakers

George Johnson

Personal Care Executive

CivicMakers

Betty Currie

Presidential Secretary

CivicMakers

Amazon Brooks

Domestic

ArtMakers

Nick Cave

Performance Artist, Art Professor

CivicMakers

Victoria Adams

Civil Rights Activist

SportsMakers

Charles Brown

Basketball Player, Basketball Official

MusicMakers

Eddy Clearwater

Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Bertrand Miles

Photographer

ArtMakers

Curtis King

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Arts Administrator

ReligionMakers

Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry

Bishop

CivicMakers, MedicalMakers

Alyce Faye Wattleton

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Chief Executive Officer, Nurse

ArtMakers

Najwa I

Dancer, Arts Administrator

CivicMakers

Naomi Jean Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Roy Lewis

Photojournalist

LawMakers

Keith H. Williamson

Corporate Executive, Corporate Lawyer

ReligionMakers

Reverend Charles Richard Stith

Minister

CivicMakers

Lawrence Guyot

City Government Employee, Civil Rights Activist

MusicMakers

Walter J. Turnbull

Choral Director

MediaMakers

Vernon Smith

Magazine Reporter, Author

EducationMakers

Thelma Lee Russell

Education Entrepreneur

ArtMakers

Barbara Ann Teer

Arts Administrator

EntertainmentMakers

Robert Guillaume

Actor

MediaMakers

Chuck Stone

Journalism Professor, Newspaper Columnist

MediaMakers

Sylvester Monroe

Author, Newspaper Editor, Magazine Correspondent

EntertainmentMakers

Hattie Winston Wheeler

Actress

MusicMakers

Harold Wheeler

Music Composer, Music Producer

MusicMakers

Olly Wilson

Music Professor, Music Composer

EducationMakers, BusinessMakers

David A. Thomas

Business Professor, Economist, College President

CivicMakers, EducationMakers

Harold Pates

Cultural Activist, College President, Teacher

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Willard Johnson

Political Science Professor, Genealogist

ArtMakers

Angela Jackson

Playwright, Poet

ArtMakers

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Artistic Director, Dancer

PoliticalMakers

Barbara Ann Lumpkin

City Treasurer

ScienceMakers

Larry Gladney

Physicist

ArtMakers

Martha Brock-Leftridge

Photographer