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Author Archives: Brenda C. Siler

Brenda Siler is an award-winning journalist and public relations strategist. Her communications career began in college as an advertising copywriter, a news reporter, public affairs producer/host and a jazz program producer/host. After college, she continued producing and hosting jazz programs for ten years.

Currently a contributing writer for the Washington Informer, Siler writes about STEM, HBCUs, the arts, entertainment, Washington, DC area dining. She also has written articles and chapters for public relations industry trade publications, including PRNews, Ragan Report, and Inside Organizational Communications.

Siler has led national, regional, and local communications departments in Atlanta and Washington, DC. She has worked at AARP, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Red Cross, United Way, and UNCF-the United Negro College Fund. At UNCF, she oversaw the rebranding of America’s largest minority scholarship fund, retaining its iconic tagline, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Siler is a lifetime member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), a global professional association with members in 80 countries. She was the first person of color to serve as chairperson for the IABC international executive board. In 2017, she received the IABC Fellow designation recognizing her achievements in global organizational communications.

Siler is a native Washingtonian and an alumna of Spelman College. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Freddie Jackson
Posted inLifestyle

Jamming to New Heights with Freddie Jackson

by Brenda C. Siler November 30, 2022November 30, 2022
RPM in the Mt. Vernon Triangle area in the District is a participant in DC Cocktail Week, running from Nov. 28-Dec. 4. (Courtesy of RAMW)
Posted inFood

Cheers to DC Cocktail Week, Nov. 28-Dec. 4

by Brenda C. Siler November 29, 2022November 30, 2022
Posted inArts

Robert Glasper’s 10th Anniversary Black Radio, Just What We Needed

by Brenda C. Siler November 23, 2022November 23, 2022
Javon Jackson and Nikki Giovanni in the recording studio for the album "The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni” (Courtesy of Shaban R. Athuman/Kennedy Center)
Posted inLifestyle

Nikki Giovanni Takes Her Prose to Another Level

by Brenda C. Siler November 22, 2022November 28, 2022
"Is That Black Enough For You?!?," currently airing on Netflix, is a documentary by writer, director and narrator Elvis Mitchell about Black films. (Courtesy of Netflix)
Posted inLifestyle

‘Is That Black Enough For You?!?’ Goes Down Memory Lane

by Brenda C. Siler November 22, 2022November 23, 2022
D-Nice brought Club Quarantine to the Opera House at the Kennedy Center. (Brenda C. Siler/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLifestyle

Going to the Club Will Never Be the Same

by Brenda C. Siler November 22, 2022November 23, 2022
“The Day You Begin,” at the Kennedy Center until Dec. 18, is based on the book by Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence with music and lyrics by Toshi Reagon. Cast members (from left) Carla Duren, Ashley D. Nguyen, Noah Virgile, Camilo Linares (Courtesy of Teresa Wood/Kennedy Center)
Posted inLifestyle

Toshi Reagon Gives Music to Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘The Day You Begin’

by Brenda C. Siler November 22, 2022November 23, 2022
In front of Marian Wright Edelman's "Portrait of a Nation" photograph are (from left) Edelman, her granddaughters Zoe Edelman and Ellika Edelman, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton presented Edelman with her honor during the Portrait of a Nation Gala held at the National Portrait Gallery. (Courtesy photo of Paul Morigi/National Portrait Gallery)
Posted inLifestyle

Images of Seven Global Leaders Unveiled for Public Viewing

by Brenda C. Siler November 22, 2022November 23, 2022
Cécile McLorin Salvant stars in her creation "Ogresse," performed recently at the Kennedy Center. (Courtesy of Jati Lindsay)
Posted inLifestyle

Cécile McLorin Salvant Brings Together Jazz and Theater

by Brenda C. Siler November 16, 2022November 17, 2022
Singer Nova Y. Payton was one of the performers in the production “A Night at Café Society” at Bethesda Blues and Jazz. Accompanying Payton were (from left) pianist Warren Wolf, bass player Blake Meister, music director/drummer Chuck Redd and tenor saxophonist Lyle Link. (Brenda C. Siler/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLifestyle

A Road Down Memory Lane in One ‘Night at Café Society’

by Brenda C. Siler November 16, 2022November 17, 2022

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