Circle of Sisters 2008

Missed the 2008 Circle of Sisters? Here’s a little recap of 2008′s panels, concerts, appearances & more!

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Saturday

Panels

• Don’t Block the Flow – Finance Seminar – featuring: Glinda Bridgforth (Author of several financial books, most recently, “Girl, Get Your Credit Straight”) – Moderator, Susan Chapman (Global Head of Operations for Citigroup Corp Realty Services), Lynnette Khalfani-Cox (The Money Coach, is a personal finance expert and the author of “Zero Debt and its sequel Zero Debt for College Grads” and most recently “Your First Home: The Smart Way to Get It and Keep It”), Stephen Pemberton (Chief Diversity Officer of Monster.com)
• Raising Children Today – featuring: Gary Byrd (WBLS On-Air Personality) – Moderator, Kenneth Braswell (Director of the NYS Fatherhood Initiative), Kimberly Seals-Allers (Author of “The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy”), Reverend Run and Justine Simmons (Authors, “Take Back Your Family” and “God, Can You Hear Me?”)
• Healthy Living – Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise – featuring: Jasmine (WBLS On-Air Personality) – Moderator, June Ambrose (Celebrity Fashion Stylist and Author), LaJoyce Brookshire (Author, “Faith Under Fire: Betrayed by a Thing Called Love”), Stephanie M. Clark (Author, “Life as A Single Mom: It isn’t Easy, or is it?”), Farrah Gray (Author, “Reallionaire: 9 Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out”), Terrie M. Williams (Founder and President – The Stay Strong Foundation, Author and Mental Health Advocate)
• Your Choice, Your Voice – Get out and VOTE! – featuring: A Special Message on Voting by David Dinkins, Mark Reily (WLIB On-Air Personality) – Moderator, Keli Goff (Author of “Party Crashing: How the Hip Hop Generation Declared Political Independence”), Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (Hip Hop Intellectual and author of “Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity”), Reverend Al Sharpton
• Sex in the City – featuring: Ann Tripp (WBLS and WLIB On-Air Personality) – Moderator, Dr. Grace Cornish (Relationship consultant and award-winning best-selling author of 10 books), Sandra “Pepa” Denton (Author of “Let’s Talk About Pep”), Dr. Hilda Hutcherson (OB/GYN and beloved author of many books, most recently “Pleasure: A Woman’s Guide to Getting the Sex you Want, Need and Deserve”), Michelle McKinney Hammond (TV Co-Host, Singer, and Author of many books, most recently “Secrets of an Irresistible Woman: Smart Rules for Capturing His Heart”), Rajen Persaud (Author, “Why Black Men Love White Women”)

R&B Concert

• featuring: Terry Dexter, Deborah Cox, Regina Bell, Kindred & The Family Soul, Jennifer Hudson, Lyfe Jennings
  

The Scholastic Kids Pavilion

• Jerry Craft, Cartoonist (Illustrator and Creator of “Mama’s Boyz” Comic Strip)
• Mr. Chris’ Musical Experience (Educational Entertainment)
• 14 year old Zykeya McLeod (Author of “An Inner Child Speaks”)
• Celebrity Trainer, Dawn Strozier presents the Fitness Kidz
• Ruby and the Booker Boys Read Aloud with Author, Derrick Barnes (Reading, Book Signing and Photo Time with Ruby!)
• The WeeTones Project (Educational Music Program)
• Klutz Build-A-Book Workshop
• Scholastic Story Time

The Grace Foods Culinary Corner

• featuring: Jeff Henderson (Author, “Chef Jeff Cooks: In the Kitchen with America’s Inspirational New Culinary Star”) with Chef Aaron McCargo, Grace Foods, Norma Jean Darden (Chef, Restaurateur, and Contributing Author to the O Magazine Cookbook), Champaine (WBLS Personality and Trained Chef), Sunny Anderson (Food Network Chef and Host of Cooking for Real and How’d That Get On My Plate?)

Author Signings in the Author Pavilion

• Geneva Holliday/Berenice McFadden (“Seduction”)
• Janine Morris (“She’s No Angel”)
• Lori Tharps (“Kinky Gazpacho”)
• Sil Lai Abrams (“No More Drama: Nine Simple Steps to Transforming a Breakdown into a Breakthrough”)
• Karen E. Quinones Miller (Author of “Passin’, The Guide to Becoming the Sensuous Black Woman, and “Harlem Godfather”)
• Alicia Crowe (“Real Dads Stand Up”)

Sunday

Worship Service

• featuring: Bishop Hezekiah Walker

Panels

• The Gift – featuring: Liz Black (WLIB Personality) – Moderator, Dawn Daniels and Candance Sandy (“A Souls of My Sisters Book of Revelations and Tools for Healing Your Life, Soul, and Spirit”), Kirk and Tammy Franklin (Authors and Gospel Performers), Jennifer Lewis-Hall (“The Gift” The Author of “Life’s A Journey – Not A Sprint” and “Life Changes,” TV Journalist, Author and Life Coach)

Gospel Explosion

• featuring: Donnie McClurkin, Maurette Brown-Clarke, James Fortune, Bishop Hezekiah Walker

The Scholastic Kids Pavilion

• Mr. Chris’ Musical Experience (Educational Entertainment)
• Celebrity Trainer, Dawn Strozier presents the Fitness Kidz
• Ruby and the Booker Boys Read Aloud with Author, Derrick Barnes (Reading, Book Signing and Photo Time with Ruby!)
• Build-A-Book Workshop
• Klutz Build-A-Book Workshop
• Scholastic Story Time

The Grace Foods Culinary Corner

• featuring: Grace Foods, Fabiola D. Gaines (Dietician and Author, “The New Soul Food Cookbook for People with Diabetes”), Joan Davis, Shakara Bridgers, Jeniece Isley (Authors, “The Get ‘Em Girls Guide to Unlocking the Power of Cuisine”)

Author Signings in the Author Pavilion

• Pastor Michel White-Haynes (“Left Hand Victory: The Autobiography of Pastor Michel White”)