Dr. Ava Thompson Greenwell is the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News, filmmaker of “Mandela in Chicago,” podcaster, and journalism professor.
She is a Chicago native and director/producer of Mandela in Chicago, a documentary film about the city’s anti-apartheid movement. She is also the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News. Greenwell, an academic life coach, has been a freelance correspondent for WGN-TV and Chicago Tonight, a PBS news program. She also worked as a reporter at WFLA-TV in Tampa, FL; WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, MN; and WEHT-TV in Evansville, IN.
Quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
– Marianne Williamson
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Podcast: Ladies Leading
Book: Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News
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