African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice

List of Contributors

List of Contributors Mary Anne Adams serves as board chair of ZAMI, Inc., “Atlanta’s Premier Organization for Lesbians of African Decent.” She founded and developed its Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, a national fund that has awarded scholarship monies to “out LGBT scholars of color.” Adams received her B.A. from the University of Mississippi and her master’s degree in social work from Georgia State University. Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta-based author of six novels, thirteen plays, two books of poetry, two books of essays, and a number of performance pieces. Her book What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a New York Times bestseller, and her play Flyin’ West was the most produced new play in the country in 1994. She frequently collaborates with her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett Jr. Marian Cannon Dornell is a retired registered nurse. She resides with her husband, Edwin, in State College, PA. They have five children and six grandchildren . She writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. William Dotson is a bureau chief of family, school and community health for the St. Louis Department of Health. He earned his undergraduate degree at Webster University and his master’s degree in clinical psychology at Washington University, both located in St. Louis. He also earned an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado for his pioneering work regarding HIV/AIDS in minority communities. Deloise (Dee) A. Frisque is founder and executive director of the Armstead Development Center where she develops and facilitates professional development programs. She earned her PhD from Pennsylvania State University. She and her husband, Dick, live in Pennsylvania. 293 294 List of Conributors Omar Freilla currently lives in the South Bronx and is the director of Green Worker Cooperatives where he organizes other South Bronx residents into environmentally friendly work-owned manufacturing businesses. Carolyn E. Gross is assistant professor of sociology at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She received her B.A. from the University of MarylandEastern Shore and M.A. in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has authored several articles and essays on feminism, peace education, school violence, people of color, and domestic violence. Vanessa Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker and owner of Healing Circles, Inc., a private practice based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Jackson earned her master’s degree from Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work. She is currently working on projects involving feminist management principles and fiscal trauma. Gary L. Lemons holds the PhD from New York University in English and American literature. Recent publications include Black Male Outsider, A Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man (SUNY Press, 2008) and Womanist Forefathers, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois (SUNY Press, 2009). Dorothy M. is a feminist, educator, activist, and advocate for the advancement of women’s health and women’s status in the United States and abroad. Her work combines social justice issues, women’s holistic health, HIV/AIDS prevention , domestic violence, and human rights. Vera C. Martin was born June 18, 1923, in Natchez, Mississippi, and moved to California in 1939. She has served as a union organizer and an active member of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. She lives in Arizona. Mark Anthony Neal is associate professor of Black popular culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University. His column, “Critical Noir,” appears weekly on AOL Black Voices, and he is a regular commentator on National Public Radio. He authored New Black Man (New York: Routledge, 2005). Anitra L. Nevels is the founder of Details! a dream development and coaching consultancy established in 2000. The skilled-based information she shares is not just theory, it is laced with 20 years of personal experiences of overcoming challenges and obstacles while obtaining professional and personal successes. For additional information, see http://www.dreamdeveloper.net. 295 List of Conributors Todd C. Shaw is assistant professor of political science and African American studies at the University of South Carolina. He researches and teaches in the areas of African American politics and ideology, American racial/ethnic politics, urban policy, and citizen activism. His forthcoming book is Now Is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism (Duke University Press). Angela M. W. Thanyachareon is currently an immigration and special education disability law advocate and attorney. She is actively involved with several nonprofit organizations that address the...