A local book club re-discovers local writer Gertrude Dorsey Brown more than 100 years after her work was published. This story is the third part of a series of written and audio stories called Black Lives in Licking County, a collaboration between the NAACP of Licking County, The Reporting Project at Denison University, and the Newark Advocate.
Author Archives: Smelanda Jean-Baptiste
Smelanda Jean-Baptiste is studying Anthropology, Sociology, and Narrative Journalism at Denison University. She has written for the Haitian publication Woy Magazine and was a 2020 Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute Fellow with the New York Public Library, during which time she researched Haitian women during U.S. Imperialism. She is currently interning with Columbus Public Health, where she is working on maternal and infant health. Smelanda is from Stamford, CT and is passionate about history, culture, and health.