All the Extra Stuff
Awards:
- Distinguished National Service Award: National Storytelling Network
- Linda Jenkins Brown Nia Award for Service:National Association of Black Storytellers
- Storytelling Award Winner: Jumping on Grandma’s Plastic Covered Couch(CD)
- Four National Awards (including Parents’ Choice): Common Sense and Uncommon Fun(CD)
Career Highlights:
- Featured on the Storytelling Wall of Names and Voices, International Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, TN
- New Voice Teller, Exchange Place Teller, Schoolhouse Teller and Emcee, National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN
- Teller in Residence, International Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, TN
- Featured Teller, Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, Orem, Utah
- Co-chair National Storytelling Conference
- Co-chair National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference
- Co-chair, Adopt-A-Teller Program, National Association of Black Storytellers
- Leader, Storytelling Tour of Egypt
- Co-Leader, Storytelling Tour of South Africa
Memberships:
- National Storytelling Network – Story Slam Host & Workshop Presenter
- National Association of Black Storytellers – Life member, Featured Teller & Workshop Presenter
- North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers
There’s More:
- DVD: No Time for a ParTAY– a story-video produced by the Illinois Arts Council and WTTW11 television for “Arts Across Illinois”
- Contributor: Telling Stories to Children– published by the National Storytelling Network
- Co-author: Quality Angles & The Tantalus Complex– published by Griggs Associates