Dr. Jennifer Abod was a radio broadcaster for 19 years. She hosted and produced news, features, live talk shows, documentaries and specials programming on public and commercial radio in Connecticut, Philadelphia and Boston. She was the first woman in Connecticut to host a nightly AM radio talk show, "The Jennifer Abod Show." She is an American feminist activist and award winning media producer. Abod holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Media Education and Women’s Studies. As a feminist,activist and professor, Abod was part of the dawning of the second wave of feminism in the U.S.
Chadra Pittman is the Vice-Chair of ZAMI NOBLA and Founder & Executive Director of The Sankofa Projects, where she works to preserve the legacy of the African diaspora & 4 E.V.E.R. (End Violence End Rape), an activist organization that seeks to end sexual violence globally while advocating for deaf and LGBTQI inclusion. She serves on the Norfolk Botanical Garden’s Presidents Council for Inclusion and Diversity and the Southeast CARE Coalition for Environmental Justice.
In its 10th year this June, she will host Sankofa’s Remembrance Day, which is the only Middle Passage Ceremony in Coastal Virginia which honors the millions of Africans who died during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Dr. Jennifer Abod was a radio broadcaster for 19 years. She hosted and produced news, features, live talk shows, documentaries and specials programming on public and commercial radio in Connecticut, Philadelphia and Boston. She was the first woman in Connecticut to host a nightly AM radio talk show, "The Jennifer Abod Show." She is an American feminist activist and award winning media producer. Abod holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Media Education and Women’s Studies. As a feminist,activist and professor, Abod was part of the dawning of the second wave of feminism in the U.S.
Chadra Pittman is the Vice-Chair of ZAMI NOBLA and Founder & Executive Director of The Sankofa Projects, where she works to preserve the legacy of the African diaspora & 4 E.V.E.R. (End Violence End Rape), an activist organization that seeks to end sexual violence globally while advocating for deaf and LGBTQI inclusion. She serves on the Norfolk Botanical Garden’s Presidents Council for Inclusion and Diversity and the Southeast CARE Coalition for Environmental Justice.
In its 10th year this June, she will host Sankofa’s Remembrance Day, which is the only Middle Passage Ceremony in Coastal Virginia which honors the millions of Africans who died during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
