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THANKS FOR VISITING!

Since I design and update my own website, this is a hybrid first person/resume type of thing.

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THE FILE

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• Son of Nelson and Juanita, husband of Halima and proud father of Stevie. I cook, create, laugh and make people laugh.

• Native of New Orleans. Red beans and rice, Creole hot sausage po-boys and beignets make me weak.

• Master of Professional Studies in strategic leadership, Tennessee State University. Check out my research, "Fyre: A Case Study of How Followership in Organizations Is Influenced by Narcissistic Leadership." Bachelor of Arts in mass communication, Loyola University New Orleans.

• Memberships:

  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. - Pi Pi Lambda alumni chapter

  • American Marketing Association/AMA NOLA

  • Association of National Advertisers

  • National Association of Black Journalists/New Orleans Association of Black Journalists

  • Public Relations Society of America

• Trivia:  

  • During my stand-up comedy days, I once opened for this dude named Kevin Hart.

  • I tore my ACL doing a stand-up comedy routine. I wasn't standing up, though.

  • During a radio interview, I asked Arne Duncan who won in basketball between him and Barack Obama. His answer was very diplomatic. I "booed" his answer...on air.

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THE HUSTLES

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• Media Veteran

  • Communications professional

    • Communications and Marketing Director, Dillard University

    • As former Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) PR director, led effort to defeat State of Louisiana proposal to remove the university from its system and designed institutional logos.

    • Former Communications Director, Paul Quinn College.

  • Radio broadcaster

    • Former co-producer/contributor of Press Club of New Orleans award-winning "Sunday Journal" on WYLD-FM. Founding producer/co-host of "Real Talk," WQUE-FM. 

    • Coolest interviews:  Actor Lance E. Nichols; his daughter and recording artist Voice Monet; Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White; Cornel West; Danny Glover; Stan Verrett; former NBA player David West; Soledad O'Brien; former U.S. Secretaries of Education Arne Duncan and Rod Paige; former NFL quarterback Shaun King; Kem; and Jeffrey Osborne.

    • Has appeared on WRNO-FM (New Orleans), "Living Your Best Life Radio", the HBCU Digest Network, and the KBCN Radio Network. Also WWL-TV, WYES-TV and WDSU-TV (New Orleans).​​

• Career Development

  • Personal branding and emotional intelligence enthusiast

  • Former recruiter

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OTHER CLAIMS TO FAME

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• Contributor, College Summit's #BeAGrad Twitter chat, "Greek Life 101" and Al Jazeera America's chat on fraternity hazing.​

• Publicity chair, 2015 Alpha Phi Alpha Southwestern Regional Convention, highest registration for the region until 2017.