November 2009

Native American Indian Heritage Month

Heritage Month – June

Caribbean-American Heritage Month gives us all an opportunity to celebrate the great contributions Caribbean Americans have made to benefit our nation.

Caribbean-American Diaspora and the Media

On Monday, June 1, 2009, join in for a lively discussion on the Caribbean-American diaspora and the media. Ann-Marie Adams, founder and president of National Association of Caribbean-American Journalists (NACAJ), will discuss the history of Caribbean Americans and how the members of the Caribbean-American diaspora in the United States can work with media to enhance their visibility and their issues.

Event Details

Monday, June 1, 2009
12 noon–1 p.m.
Inn and Conference Center, Room 1123

Free and open to the public

To RSVP for this event, call Diversity Initiatives at 301-985-7940 or e-mail diversity-initiatives@umuc.edu.

Speaker Bio

Ann-Marie Adams is an award-winning journalist and publisher of The Hartford Guardian, print and online news magazine. Adams began her career in journalism at Brooklyn College. While there, Adams landed her first job as an education reporter for the Times-Herald Record in Middletown, New York. Since then she has worked at the The Norwich Bulletin, The Hartford Courant, News 12 Connecticut TV, FOX news and NBC4 New York, People magazine and other local and international publications.

While at The Courant, Adams became the youngest president of the Connecticut Association of Black Journalists, a chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. She is also the founder and president of the National Association of Caribbean-American Journalists.

A ten-year veteran, Adams writes about politics, education, travel and the Caribbean diaspora in the U.S.

Adams won the 2001 Lincoln University first-place award for best education series and fellowships including, a 2004 Independent Press Association George Washington Williams Reporting Fellowship. She is a 2003 graduate of Leadership Greater Hartford and a recipient of Hartford Business Journal's 2006 Forty Under Forty Award.

Adams is also a PhD candidate at Howard University, studying 20th century U.S. history and the African diaspora. Her research interests include black education in New England and Caribbean migration.

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Contact UMUC Diversity Initiatives
for additional information.
Phone: 301-985-7940
E-mail: diversity-initiatives@umuc.edu