Community Service

Board Memberships

• Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Int'l. Director of Publicity
• Community Leadership Board of the American Diabetes Association (past)
• Triangle Rising Stars (DPAC)
  
• The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay (past)
  
• Gentleman's Quest mentoring program (board chair)
• Board of Visitors, FAMU School of Journalism
• Tampa Bay Juneteenth Coalition (past)
• Swope, Rodante Vanguard Award Selection Board (past)
• Hillsborough Community College Digital, TV and Media Production Advisory Board
• Sigma Xi SIgma Chapter, Phi Beta Sigma, 2nd Vice President (past)

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Emcee

• (George) Floyd Family Center for Social Equity Day of Enlightenment (2021,2022)
• Florida A&M University Homecoming "Grads are Back" (2022)
• V-Foundation Victory Ride (2021,2022)
• Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk (2021,2022)
• Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Kickoff (2022)
• Phi Beta Sigma Global Founders Day Celebration (2022)
• Triangle Chapter NABJ Media Day (2021)
• Phi Beta Sigma Global Founders Day Celebration (2021)
• Hillsborough County Urban League Panel Discussion (2021)
• Nexstar Employee Town Hall Meeting (2021)
• State of Black Men's Mental Health (2021)
• Zeta Phi Beta Career Exposure (2021)
• Zeta Phi Beta Black HIstory Month (2021)
• USF Kente Awards (2021)
• ADA Tour de Cure Virtual Walk (2021)
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Civics Jeopardy Game Show Host (2021)
• Delta Sigma Theta Panel Discussion (2021)
• Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalist Black Male Media Project (2021)
• Tampa STEM conference (2021)
• PRSA Tampa Bay Panelist (2021)
• ADA Tour de Cure Virtual Walk, Emcee (2020)
• Crisis Center Cup of Compassion, Emcee (2019,2020)
• TBBCA Impact Awards, Emcee (2020,2019)
• Hillsborough Safe and Sound Virtual Recognition, Emcee (2020)
• MLK Dinner St. Petersburg, Emcee (2020)
• MLK Interfaith Service, Emcee (2020)
• TBABJ Black Male Media Project Virtual program, moderator (2020)
• Villa Madonna School  Career Day, Speaker (2020)
• Plant City Black History Celebration, Emcee (2020)
• City of Tampa Black History Program, Emcee (2020)
• HCC Black, Brown and College Bound, Emcee (2020)
• COVID Virtual Town Hall Meeting, Moderator (2020)
• Tampa Organization of Black Affairs Virtual Leadership Class, Presenter (2020)
• Poynter Diversity Virtual Presentation, Presenter (2020)
• Lorde-Locke Society Virtual Voting Town Hall, Moderator (2020)
• Synapse Conference Diversity Discussion, moderator (2020)
• Women's Business Centre Mastermind Roundtable Discussion around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workforce, Moderator (2020)
• NABJ Webinar on Micro-agressions, co-planner (2020)
• NABJ Webinar on COVID and Reporter, Co-planner (2020)
• HIllsborough Literacy Council Virtual Awards Program, Emcee (2020)
• TBABJ Voting Virtual Town Hall,co-planner (2020)
• TBABJ Virtual Griot Drum Awards, co-emcee (2020)
• CDC of Tampa Virtual Awards Luncheon, emcee (2020)
• FAMU Alumni Gala, Emcee (2018)
• Tampa Ms. Juneteenth Pageant, Emcee (2018) 
• Summer Ready Camp, Frostproof, Speaker (2018) 
• Tampa Bay Bucs Cops and Cleats Program, emcee (2018)
  
• ADA Tour de Cure, Emcee (2018)
• Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement, emcee (2018,2017)
• St. Petersburg MLK Day Interfaith Service, emcee (2018, 2017)
• Florida State Fair Wall of Diversity Ceremony, emcee (2017) 
• UACDC Art in the Park.. After Dark (2107)
• Hillsborough Literacy Council (2017)
• Phi Beta Sigma Congressional Black Caucus "Real Talk" (2017)
• Miss Teenage Tampa (2017)
• Florida Holocaust Museum Name Reader (2017)
• Call to Worship/Greek Day  Allen Temple AME Church (2017)
• HIllsborough County Spotlight on Seniors (2017)
• Dr. Joseph L. Carwise Achievement Awards Emcee (2017)​​
• Krewe De Libertalia Awards Program (2017) 
• United WayArt of Giving (2017)
• Men of Vision Awards (2017) 
• First Responders Golf Tournament (2016)
• NAACP Political Forum (2016)
• NAACP Political Forum #2 (2016)
• Runaway to Runway Miracles Outreach Fashion Show (2016)
• HIllsborough Literacy Council (2016)
• FAMU Alumni Association Presidential Inauguration Luncheon (2016)
• Tuskegee Alumni Association Luncheon (2016)
• United Way Art of Giving (2016)
• Grand Krewe de Libertalia Scholarship Dinner (2016)
• TBABJ get your News in the News Forum (2016)
• Bikes, Blacks and Tickets - Tampa Police Department forum (2016)
• Dept. of Health, Hillsborough County -  Infant Mortality Community Conversation (2016)
• Solita's House Anniversary (2016)
• On Track Solutions, Moderator (2016) 
• Black, Brown, College Bound, Emcee (2016)
• Blue Tie Affair, Emcee (2016) 
• Tour de Cure, ADA, Emcee (2016)
• TBABJ Student Workshop, Moderator (2016)
• TBABJ Community Workshop, Moderator (2016)
• Miss Teenage Tampa (AKA), Host (2016)
• Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement (2016)
• Griot Drum Awards (2015)
• Ft. Desoto Wheel Chair Race and Fun Day (2015)
• Hillsborough Literacy Council (2015)
• Robert Saunders Library Gala (2015)
• Sisters Network 5K (2015)
• AKA Miss Teenage Tampa Bay (2015)
• American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure (2015)
• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Awards Dinner Presenter (2015)
• Delta Academy Presenter (2015)
• Miss Blake Pageant (2015)
• Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement (2015)
• Alpha Phi Alpha Youth Summit (2015)
• Plant City Black History Celebration (2015)
• NAACP Political Forum (2015)
• City of Tampa Black History Celebration (2015)
• FAMU Presidential Visit/Scholarship Gala (2015)
• Black, Brown and College Brown (2015)
• Your Real Stories Community Conversation (2015)
• Hillsborough Community College Black History (2015)
• HOPE Gathering - No More Violence Concert Featuring John P. Kee (2014)
• Zeta Phi Beta Gala (2014)
• ADA Stepout Walk (2014)
• NAACP Sarasota Freedom Fund Dinner (2014)
• Great American Teach-in, Tampa Day School (2014)
• Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists Griot Drum Awards (2014)
• Tampa-Hillsborough Action Plan Gala (2014)
• FAMU-NABJ Short Course Instructor (2014)
• Hillsborough Literacy Council (2014)
• Sigma Gamma Rho 2014 Footprint Service Awards (2014)
• MyOn Reading Summer Reading Kickoff (2014)
• ADA Stepout Walk Corporate Breakfast (2014)
• The Legends Dinner (2014)​
• MyOn Reading Event (2014)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day Interfaith Service (2014)
• Gasparilla Parade Host (2014) 
• Black Brown and College Bound Justice Panel Emcee (2014)
• United Way Suncoast American Promise Viewing/Teen Discussion Moderator (2014) 
• Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner Tarpon Springs (2014)
• CDC Youth Leadership Retreat- Suit Up & Show Up (2014)
• FAMU Journalism Short Course Instructor (2014)
• Phi Beta Sigma Blue Tie Affair (2014)
• YMCA Dinner (2014)
• ADA Tour De Cure (2014)
• Jamaica Outreach Dinner (2014)
• All Children's Hospital Brandon Guild Dinner (2014)
• Order of the Eastern Stars,  Evening With the Stars (2014)
• FAMU/Sarasota Orange and Green Gala (2014)
• Golf Tournament, Bible Based Fellowship Church (2014)
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Miss Teenage Tampa (2014)
• St. Paul A.M.E. Church 'H'attitude Brunch (2014) 
• United Way Suncoast Art of Giving, Interview with Project Runway's Tim Gunn (2014)
• Man & Woman of the Year Gala, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society  (2014)
• Krewe Scholarship Dinner (2014)
• St. John M.B. Church Community Impact Dinner (2014)
• Hillsborough County Schools, Spotlight on Seniors (2014)
• Tampa YMCA Community Impact Dinner (2013)
• Great American Teach-in Gary Adult School & Kimbell Elementary (2013)
• Phi Beta Sigma Gift wrapping (2013) 
• Sarcoidosis Awareness Concert: Raise the Praise (2013)
• American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk (2013)
• NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner Co-Emcee (2013)
• United Way Suncoast Anniversary Dinner (2013)
• "Standing on Their Shoulders" Conference, Birmingham Association of Black Journalists (2013) 
• Trayvon Martin Teen Summit, Moderator (2013)
• NABJ Convention Gospel Brunch, Host (2013)
• HIllsborough Co. Schools Safety Video (2013)
• Hillsborough Co. Schools Spotlight on Seniors  Host (2013)
• United Way Suncoast Art of Giving Emcee; Interview Bill and Giuliana Rancic (2013)
• Buffalo Soldiers Military Ball (2013)
• American Diabetes Assoc. Stepout Breakfast (2013) 
• AKA Miss Teenage Tampa Bay (2013)
• United Way Suncoast Summer Reading Kickoff (2013)
• American Diabetes Assoc. Tour De Cure (2013)
• Studio@620 Honors Emcee (2013)
• Bay City Lodge and Temple Oratorical Contest Judge (2013)
• Phi Beta Sigma Blue Tie Affair Emcee (2013)
• Black Brown and College Bound  (2013)
• Bollywood Nights (2013)
• City of Tampa Black History Program (2013)
• 40th Annual Bay Are Brotherhood MLK Banquet Emcee (2013)
• Stageworks Theater's "The Colored Museum" Show Greeter (2012)
• United Way Reading Pals (2012)  
• HIllsborough Literacy Council Awards (2012, 2011)
• FAMU School of Journalism Dean James Hawkins Retirement Celebration (2012)
• United Way Suncoast Product Knowledge Project (2) (2012)
• United Way Suncoast Product Knowledge Project (2012)
• American Diabetes 2012 Walk Kickoff (2012)
• National Council of Negro Women Fundraiser (2012)
• Bay Area Medical Association Dinner (2012)          
•  Buffalo Soldiers Military Ball (2012)
• Miss Teenage Tampa Bay (2012 ,2011, 2006, 2004)
• Decades of Day Work III, family featured (2012)
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society MWOY (2012)
• A Jamaican Evening, Beulah Baptist Church (2012)
• Phi Beta Sigma Blue Tie Affair Ball (2012) 
• Delta Sigma Theta Queen of Hearts Ball (2012)
• Black, Brown and College Bound (2012)
• Plant City Black Heritage Festival Banquet (2012)
• City of Tampa Black History Celebration (2013, 2012, 
• 2011,2007) 
• Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists Griot Drum Awards (2011, 2010, 2005)
• Destiknee Place Fundrasier (2011)
• NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner (2011) 
• All Children's Hospital Brandon Guild "All That Glitters" (2011) 
• Computer Mentors Technology Bowl (Moderator), Tampa (2011)
• FAMU National Alumni Association Convention, 
• President's Luncheon Orlando, Fl (2011)
• Fashion Show to Benefit Gideon House (2011)
• ADA Step out Walk Kickoff (2011) 
• Hillsborough County Literacy Council Tutor-Student Appreciation Assembly (2011) 
• Worship Leader, Beulah Baptist Church Homecoming Service (2011) 
• F.A.I.R. Rally (2011)
• Jamaican Ministry Dinner, Beulah Baptist Church (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011) 
• Rays Game Guest Announcer (2011) 
• The Links Jazz Event, Sarasota (2011) 
• Citizens Alliance For Progress MLK Celebration (2011) 
• All Children's Hospital 80th Annual Charity Ball (2011) 
• UNCF Manatee/Sarasota Scholarship Awards Dinner (2011) 
• Premier Player of College Football Awards (2011) 
• Mt. Olive AME Church, Edwards Waters College Benefit concert (2010) 
• Mt. Olive AME Church Christmas Cantatwa (2010)
• Joshua House Luncheon (2010)
• Hillsborough County Senior Recognition Luncheon (2011, 2010)
• Tampa Tribune Summer Concert Series Host (2010)
• Bucified Bert Dream-seeker Program (2011, 2010)
• Gibbs High School (St. Petersburg) Reunion Dinner (2010)
• NAACP St. Petersburg Dinner (2010)
• National Coalition of 100 Black Women Tampa, Gourmet Gents (2010)

Speaker

• Speaker, Shaw University (2022)
  
• Villa Madonna Career Day (2020, 2021)
• Burnett Middle School (2021)
• JW Mitchell HIgh School (2017)
• Sligh MIddle Magnet School Awards (2017)
• Abbyssinia Missionary Baptist Church (2016)
• Great American Teachin/Wesley Chapel Elem. (2016)
• Center for Girls (2016) 
• Great American Teach-in Lighthouse School (2015)
• Do the Write Thing; Poynter Institute (2014)
• Madison  County High School Journalism Class (2014)
• Jack and Jill Jet Setters Station Tour/Speaker (2013)
• 5000 Mentors Induction Ceremony -Pinellas County Schools; Speaker (2012)
• Deer Park Elementary School Mystery Reader (2012) 
• Turner Chapel AME Church, Speaker (2012)
• St. Luke M.B. Church Banquet, Plant City, Fl (2011) 
• University of South Florida/Middleton High School Visit (2011) 
• Jr. Rattler Club, Durant High School (2011) 
• Sligh Middle School At Risk Student Graduation (2010)
• Mt Pleasant Charter School (2010) 
• Instructor NABJ Journalism Short Course , FAMU (2014, 2013,2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 1993)
• Interviewed for TRUtv's "Forensic Files: Katrina Froeschle Case (2007)
• Beulah Baptist Church –Tampa, Florida, Youth Service (2002)
• Career Day Speaker, Hayes Middle School –Birmingham, Alabama (2000)
• Career Day Speaker, Barrett Elementary School – Birmingham, Alabama (2000)
• South Region Minority Business Council- Birmingham, Alabama  (2000)
• D.A.R.E-Fairfield Alabama (2000)
• Center Street Middle School National Junior Honor Society (2000)
• Pell City High School Choral Appreciation Night – Pell City,     Alabama (1999)
• Pleasant View Baptist Church Men’s Day-Birmingham, Alabama (1999)
• Brown Elementary School Class Day- Birmingham, Alabama  (1998)
• Florida A&M School of Journalism “Grads are Back” Panelist (2011)
• Participated in Boy Scout Promotional Video

Various

• Recognized in Diabetes Forecast Magazine
• First Pitch/Rays Red Sox Game (2013)
• Produced Beulah Day Video (2012, 2011) 
• Solo, Boy Scouts Luncheon (2011) 
• Solo, Phi Delta Kappa Youth Luncheon (2011) 
• Produced History Video Beulah Baptist  Anniversary (2012, 2011)
• Presidential Assistant NABJ Immediate Past President Kathy Times, NABJ Conference (2011) 
• Re-designed Website for Beulah Baptist Institutional Church (2011)  
• Solo, Mother's Day Service, St. John M.B. Church Tallahassee (2011) 
• Gasparilla Parade of Pirates Show (2012, 2011)
• Solo, Beulah Baptist Church Mother's Day 
• Luncheon (2010)
• Hillsborough County  Schools Spotlight on  Seniors Show host (2013, 2012, 2011, 2010)
• Pre -show Host for Tampa Bay Rays Games (2011, 2010) 
• Coffee Talk at the University of Alabama (2008)
• Host, NBC 13 Throws a Wedding (2007)
• Performed National Anthem at Tampa Bay Rays/New York Yankees Game (2006)
• All Children’s Hospital Telethon  Host (2013, 2012, 2011, 2010,2006, 2002)
• Youth Sports Camp - Brandon, Florida (2005)
• NFL Players, Bowl with the Pros (2003) 
• Wedding Soloist (2012,2009, 2008, 2004, 2002, 2001, 1994, 1992)
• Presented “Key to the City” – Fairfield, Alabama (2000)
• Board Member,  Birmingham Schools Adult Education Program (2000)
• Great American Teach-in yearly (2000-Present)
• Tutor, Brown Elementary School – Birmingham, Alabama (Spring 1999)
• “I Love Reading” City of Birmingham, Alabama (1998)
• United Negro College Fund Telethon Host, Tallahassee, Florida (1994)
• Tutor, St. John M.B. Church – Tallahassee, Florida (1992)

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• Manatee Co. Adult Spelling Bee (2011, 2010)
• Breast Cancer Awareness Event (2010)
• USF Center for Equal Health Town Hall Meeting (2010)
• Guinta Middle School Spelling Bee (2010)
• Junior Achievement Luncheon (2011, 2010)
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Light the Night (2011, 2010) 
• Boy Scouts of America Luncheon (2010)
• American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk (Tampa) (2012, 2011,2010)
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Legacy of Leadership Awards Luncheon (2009, 2008)
• Oliver Robinson Foundation Gala (2008, 2009)
• Alabama Organ Center Volunteer; GospelFest (2009)
• American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk (Birmingham) (2009)
• City of Birmingham High School News Project (2009)
• Celebrity Waiter for Kid One Transport (2009)  
• Alabama Symphony Orchestra Veterans Day Event (Narrator (2009)
• NAACP Birmingham 100 Year Celebration (2009) 
• First Light Shelter Auction Prize (2009)
• Foot Soldiers of the Movement Event Emcee (2009)
• SCLC Birmingham Oratorical Contest (2008) 
• Phi Beta Sigma Scholarship Dinner (2011, 2010, 2006) 
• 100 Black Men of Tampa Bay Dinner (2006) 
• Sigma Gamma Rho “Buds of Spring” (2011, 2010, 2006, 2004, many others)
• Hillsborough County Urban League “Caught Doing Right” Youth Awards (2005,2004)
• Hillsborough County Winter Festival (2005)
• Hillsborough NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner (2011,2005, 2002)
• City of Tampa Federal Black History Month Celebration (2004)
• Black Women in Government (2004)
• Palm Beach Association of Black Journalists, Luncheon (2004)
• Lakeland NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner (2002)
• Hillsborough County Urban League Sunday (2002)
• Birmingham Housing Authority “Celebration of Life” Birthday Party (1999)

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