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Meet the staff of NABJ Convention OnlineMarcus Braziel
A print journalism major, Marcus’ love for journalism began during his junior year at Suncoast Community High. He worked on his high school yearbook “The Renaissance,” and with the newspaper club, “The Legend.” In the summer of 2001, Marcus completed an internship at the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach. Since then, he has interned at The Post during school winter and spring breaks. Currently Marcus is a correspondent for the University of South Florida’s newspaper, The Oracle, where he writes a mixture of news and feature stories. In addition to writing, Marcus is an active member of the University of South Florida Association of Black Journalists. Recently he was selected by NABJ to participate as a student reporter at the 28th annual convention and career fair. To complete a post-graduate degree program in print journalism and to become an editor are Marcus’ ultimate career goals. As he strives daily to obtain these goals, he is reminded of the quote, “Excellence is not a gift given, but it is a skill perfected.” Leah L. Jones
Jeff Roulston
Josef Sawyer Anthony Stokes
Stokes is a reporter for UNC’s award-winning student newscast “Carolina Week,” and serves as the online editor for Black Ink, the voice of the Black Student Movement. He is also active in the community as the founder and executive director of The Red Posts Project, a nonprofit organization addressing youth violence and conflict. He was the editor of the children’s book Voices on Violence, and has conducted youth workshops on violence and related issues. In addition to schoolwork and public service, Stokes enjoys acting and singing. He recently had a cameo appearance as the office mailman in ABC’s “Corpulent Power” and is preparing to record a contemporary Christian demo CD within the next few months. For more information, visit www.anthonystokes.net and www.redposts.org. Professional Staff Michelle Johnson
Johnson has volunteered on student projects for more than 10 years at various conventions including NABJ, NAHJ, ASNE, NLGJA, and Unity 94 and Unity 99. She has served as chair and co-chair of Boston's 15-year-old High School Journalism Workshop, sponsored by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, which encourages young people of color to consider newspaper careers. Johnson holds degrees in journalism from the University
of Maryland and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Tiffany Black
Black currently serves as the NABJ Student Representative, but her term will end at the close of convention. She also serves as the NABJ Internship Coordinator and on the Board of the Young Journalist Task Force. Robert S. Anthony
Anthony’s monthly technology columns now appear in The Network Journal and in Bloomberg Markets Magazine. His work has appeared in Black Enterprise, Savoy and other magazines and newspapers. The Paper PC, Anthony’s syndicated weekly computer column, has run in various papers, including The Journal News (White Plains, NY), Florida Today (Melbourne), The Ann Arbor News (Michigan) and the Newark (NJ) Star Ledger. Anthony is a former board member of the New York Association of Black Journalists, and the former president of the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Raven Hill Hill was placed at the Home News Tribune through the ASNE/APME Fellows Program, which helps small- to mid-sized newspapers attract minority journalists. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously she worked in the Chicago bureau of The Associated Press. Her internships include The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau. She serves on the board of the NABJ Young Journalists Task Force. |
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Leah
Jones learned the fundamentals of black-and-white photography in a
pre-collegiate summer program while she was in high school. By the
time she reached college, what started as a hobby had grown into a
career interest in documentary-style photography. But after graduating
with a photography degree from Grand Valley State University in upstate
Michigan, the Wisconsin native returned to her hometown of Beloit as
a substitute teacher. Jones has since worked in a tutorial program
for elementary students while pursuing a master’s degree in mass
communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She learned
about the Diversity Institute from an editor at the Wisconsin State
Journal, a daily newspaper that serves her hometown. After training
at the Institute, Jones will become the first person of color to work
as a photojournalist in the Journal’s photography department.
Jeff
Roulston is a 21-year-old graduating senior studying print journalism
and electronic media at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala. A native
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he grew up cheering for his hometown Toronto
Blue Jays and Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, all the while dreaming
of playing in the NBA.
Josef
Sawyer, 20, is a senior print journalism major at Howard University.
For the 2003-2004 academic year he will serve as Editor-in-Chief of
the student newspaper, “The Hilltop,” the largest Historically
Black College Newspaper in the nation.
Anthony
Stokes is a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
where he is majoring in broadcast journalism with a minor in social
and economic justice.
Michelle
Johnson, a consultant to Emerson College's Department of Journalism,
is a former editor for the Boston Globe. 
Tiffany
Black, 23, is an online news editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
where she majored in multimedia journalism and African-American studies.
Previously she interned at the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC.,
and the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn.
Robert S. Anthony, editor of Stadium Circle
Features ( 
Raven Hill is a municipal reporter at the Home News Tribune,
a Gannett daily in central NJ. She was in the first class of students
that launched the NABJ Online project at the 1996 convention and has
served as a volunteer since then.