I graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City with an AAS degree in Fashion Buying & Merchandising. Then attended the Wilfred Academy of Hair & Beauty Culture in New York City with a certificate in Hairdressing and Cosmetology. I received a Certificate of Completion in Independent Filmmaker and Producer’s Diploma from Dov S-S Simens at Hollywood Film Institute.  And won "Best Tragedy" for my short film in Winterfest at Scottsdale Community College.  Here are some of my attributions.

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o              ALL BLACK MALE DRAMATIZED FASHION SHOW

Gave birth to an idea conceived as the show’s producer, directress and Fashion coordinator, “The First All Black Male Dramatized Fashion Show”, which showcased six different scenes, showing different stages of the imagination. The script tied fantasy and the illusions to the mind of the “real thing” in

“What’s happening” today in the Black Male’s World of Fashion. The show was performed at various discotheques around New York City and made a startling comeback “By Popular Demand”.

O             A WALLFLOWER’S POINT OF VIEW ON THE DISCOTHEQUE  SCENE

Wrote the most clinching article in response to Ebony magazine’s editor Mr. Herschel Johnson’s article the “Hottest Spots on the Disco Scene”. My response appeared in the New York Amsterdam News which generated feedback to the “Dear Editor” for four weeks straight, with a rebuttal from the former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.

o              PAZGE EGYPTIAN MYTH COSMETICS

Designed and marketed a new line of black cosmetics for the women of color.  Pazge Egyptian Myth Cosmetics collection was displayed and exposed through civic functions;

a.  First International Disco Exposition at the New York Coliseum.

b. Miss America Pageant for Miss New York City at Regine Disco.

c. The Hall Jackson Talented Teens Contest at Hunter College in New York.

d. Margaret Jackson’s Show of Shows for the benefit of NAACP at the New York Hilton.

 e. Annual Community Block Association at the Harlem Building on

.f. The National Council for Culture and Arts, “A Salute to the Arts” at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

The collection was available at these locations, Femme Fatale Coiffures under Jim Williams, NYC;  Ronnie Casuals, NYC;  Keyes West Hair Designs, NYC;  Styles International, Wilmington, Delaware;  and exhibited at beauty trade shows, “Big Show” under Bernice Calvin, with a write-up in the Philadelphia Inquirer (for black women, a true cornucopia of beauty aids, April ‘82 by Sue Chastin).

FREELANCE BEAUTY & HAIR  EDITOR FOR VARIOUS

                PUBLICATIONS, LISTED ARE ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

a. Spring-Summer Sophisticates Hair

  Metro Salon Newspaper - Feb. ‘83.

 “YOUR ENDS ARE RAGGEDY, GIRLFRIEND!” a grass-root fiction.

 Completed first novel entitled “Your Ends Are Raggedy, Girl!”.  The year      is 1982 to 1986.  The place is Harlem, USA.  Mildred Evans and Claude   LeBeau are two good friends who met at Walker Beauty Academy, through perils and disappointments they established “Shampoo Time”, a chic beauty salon in Harlem.  Shampoo Time is ran successfully by the two and their colourful staff as they are confronted with personal problems of love, greed and jealousy.  The climax of this novel is the period from ‘82 to ‘86 as black issues and “world current affairs” affect the livelihood of the clients.  They  discuss their concerns in the salon, their opinions and their stories are    listened  to by the “packed salon” as they comment on abortion, Jesse Jackson, Ms.          America, Marvin Gaye and much, much more. 

 “Your Ends Are Raggedy, Girlfriend!” will make you laugh, cry, love and hate.

 o              SPLIT-ENDS
       www.SplitEndsFilm.com

 This is a story about love crossing the barriers of tradition, culture and ethnicity to be rejected, humiliated and crucified because of the love of a Black man to an Indian woman.

The room is dark and the sounds of two people are in hot pursuit.  You can hear and sense the sultry bits and pieces of a woman's voice as she begins to reach that ultimate sexual excitement, but suddenly her voice changes to sheer terror as she screams in a high pitch tone.  The voice dies out, there's pure silence suddenly a loud cry of a trilling tongue.  The scene fades to black.  

It's the late 70's and a woman is sitting in front of an old dresser with mirror in a sheer negligee and brushing her hair with a silver antique brush. Her hair is long and beautiful.  There's a hand with a birthmark placed on the shoulder as she looks up and smile.  The hand moves to the top of her head grabs a chuck of her hair from the forehead and with an axe scalps her and savagely sticks it to the mirror in one quick flash.  Monique wakes up startled. 

 Split Ends is centered on a troubled Black Chicago detective named Sam Mitchell.  Sam is called back East to investigate the murders of Black hairdressers who are being scalped with their remains stuck to salon mirror.  As a rookie in the late 70's, Sam was at the crime scene in Harlem where a Native American woman was severely scalped and her baby missing.

 The case was never solved!

                 THE OUT OF SIGHT BROTHER (play based on Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison)This play question the integrity of “Invisible Man”, by Ralph Ellison.  And ask the question; can the ignorance of one, cause the set back of an entire black race? 
Three black brothers hijack a public library while wearing taupe colored stocking hooded mask.  They bring with them a gun, a knife and the “book”. (waiting for permission from Ralph Ellison’ Estate)

o              NOT OF SOUND MIND (work in progress) A chilling screenplay, set in Harlem where our grandmother Velma Johnson live and have her TV Talk show “Our Voice” learns of a neo black organization that have Hiltler’s ideas and beliefs, however, salvaging 100% black blood and eliminating those who have mixed blood.  Kurt Weiner the head of NMAF who ancestors date back during Hitler’s reign.

o              L’ARCHIDUC’S MIDNIGHT BLEUS (work in progress)               Working on second novel entitled “L’Archiduc’s Midnight Bleus”, the saga of an American Black woman’s ordeal on foreign land.

GRAFFITI AMERICAN HAIR SALON - BRUXELLES, BELGIUM

                Researched and coordinated a 13-hour radio series with 13 segments on

                “ Harlem, The Past, The Present and The Future” for BRT-Belgium Radio