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The Other Side of Yet with Michelle Hord

Author Talk

MLK Library kicks off the new year with the true story of healing, resilience, and starting over.

Author and media executive, Michelle Hord brings her testimony and words of motivation in the bestseller “The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness.” Hord will be in conversation with former White House Correspondent Sonya Ross, now founder & editor-in-chief of Black Women Unmuted

Author and media executive, Michelle Hord brings her testimony and words of motivation in the bestseller “The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness.” Hord will be in conversation with former White House Correspondent Sonya Ross, now founder & editor-in-chief of Black Women Unmuted

Complimentary copies of “The Other Side of Yet: Finding light in the Midst of Darkness” will be presented to the first fifty attendees registered, compliments of the DC Public Library Foundation. This event is sponsored by the DC Public Library Foundation and the Washington Association of Black Journalists.

For reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile interpretation, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.

Meet the Author

Michelle D. Hord is an inspirational speaker, author, consultant, and media executive. As the President of Hope Warrior, Inc., a strategic consulting agency, and former Vice President of Creative Content and Talent Management for NBCUniversal, Michelle has produced content for an esteemed list of television shows and developed tactical solutions for business and talent management needs.

Through Hope Warrior, Inc., Michelle offers her expertise in on-air talent recruitment and development, employer brand marketing, DEI, workforce leadership training, and broadcast writing and producing.

In 2022, Michelle released her Amazon best-seller, The Other Side of Yet. The book focuses on her story of resilience in the face of unimaginable loss, and was written in hopes that others can also find courage and strength on the other side of their own crossroads.

Meet the Moderator

Sonya Ross is founder & editor in chief of Black Women Unmuted, a digital media outlet devoted to covering the political engagement of Black women in the United States. She founded Black Women Unmuted in 2019 after a 33-year career at The Associated Press. She is The AP’s first Black woman White House reporter and, in 1999, became the first Black woman elected to the board of the White House Correspondents Association. Sonya was the pool reporter aboard Air Force One with President George W. Bush during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, also an historic first. In 2010, she established specialty race & ethnicity coverage at AP that transformed the industry’s approach to gathering news for and about people of color.

In 2018, Sonya was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame, DC Pro Chapter. She is the 2023 recipient of the Washington Association of Black Journalists’ Legacy Award for her distinguished leadership in increasing access and opportunities for journalists of color. She was founding chair of the political reporting task force for the National Association of Black Journalists, is currently vice-chair of the Journalism & Women’s Symposium, and serves as secretary of the SPJ Foundation Board. Sonya also serves on the boards of the Washington Press Club Foundation and the National Newspaper Publishers Association Fund. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

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