Brenda M. Greene

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Brenda M. Greene
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Born (1950-10-29) October 29, 1950 (age 75)
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, U.S.
Education New York University (BS, PhD)
Hunter College (MA)
OccupationsScholar, educational leader, author, literary activist, and radio host
TitleFounder and Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature
Awards Lynnette Velasco Community Impact Award (2015)

Percy E. Sutton SEEK Women’s Empowerment Award (2016)

Brenda M. Greene (born 1950) is an American scholar, author, literary activist, and radio host at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. Greene is also the founder and executive director of the Center for Black Literature, [1] the director of the National Black Writers Conference, [2] and the former chair of the English department at Medgar Evers College. [3] Prior to her work in the academy, Greene also worked as an educator in the New York City Public School system, and with civic and political organizations. Since 2004, she been a radio host on WNYE radio. She is the former board chair of the Nkiru Center for Education and Culture, co-founded by hip hop musicians Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli. Greene is a member of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective. [4]

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Early life and education

Brenda M. Greene was born October 29, 1950, in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. She attended public schools in Queens and Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in English education at New York University, a Master of Arts at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a PhD in composition and rhetoric at New York University.

Academic career

Greene was director of the Right to Read Program at Malcolm King College Harlem Extension before coming to Medgar Evers College in 1980. During her tenure at Medgar Evers, she has taught courses in composition, literature and African American literature, served on curriculum, program, assessment and accreditation committees, and held administrative positions within Medgar Evers College and within the City University of New York.

She has spent a lifetime working in and building cultural arts institutions that are dedicated to progressing Black life in Brooklyn and beyond.[ promotion? ] She has collaborated with Sonia Sanchez, Susan L. Taylor, Danny Glover, Michael Eric Dyson, Marita Golden, Edwidge Danticat, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Tracy K. Smith, Colson Whitehead and elected officials in New York. She has had partnerships with institutions such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Amazon Literary Partnership, New-York Historical Society, African Voices, the Brooklyn Literary Council and the College of Education at Sacramento State.

As a professional in English studies, Greene has been a member of and in leadership positions at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). She has led literary and writing seminars for the council and been a jurist for professional and literary organizations.

Radio

Greene hosts a weekly radio program, Writers on Writing, [5] which features writers from the African diaspora discussing their novels, poems, plays, nonfiction and their lives over the airwaves of WNYE, 91.5 FM.

Writing

Personal life

Greene is the mother of Talib Kweli Greene, a hip hop artist; and Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. [11]

Honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ "Center for Black Literature".
  2. ↑ "NBWC". Center for Black Literature.
  3. ↑ "Brenda Greene". Medgar Evers College.
  4. ↑ "The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective".
  5. ↑ "Writers on Writing". centerforblackliterature.
  6. ↑ Greene, Brenda (2010). The African presence and influence on the cultures of the Americas. Cambridge Scholars. p. 195. ISBN   978-1-4438-2216-9.
  7. ↑ Greene, Brenda; Beauford, Fred (2010). Resistance and Transformation: Conversations with Black Writers (First ed.). Morton Books, Inc. p. 194. ISBN   978-1929188215.
  8. ↑ Greene, Brenda; Beauford, Fred (2008). Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing. Third World Press. p. 204. ISBN   978-0883782965.
  9. ↑ Greene, Brenda; Nunez, Elizabeth (1999). Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. p. 250. ISBN   0820442615.
  10. ↑ Greene, Brenda; Brannon, Lil; Summer Institute for Teachers of Literature; National Council of Teachers of English (1997). Rethinking American Literature . Natl Council of Teachers. pp.  274. ISBN   0814141196.
  11. ↑ "Jamal Greene". Columbia Law School.
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