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Linda
Lawson, who learned her respect of the written and
spoken word in the ninth grade, graduated from Howard
University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism.
Her
ability to see humanity through the diversity of many
eyes has led to her works appearing in publications as
diverse as The St. Louis Times Mature Magazine, Today In
Church Magazine, The St. Louis Jewish Light Newspaper,
and The Chicago Muslim Journal.
As a contributing writer to local and national
publications, her work has appeared in Black Elegance
and Black Enterprise Magazines, and the St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
She is Founder and Executive Director of Angel Helper, a
national not-for profit organization that utilizes
journalism to help those in need.
Following college, she moved to Seattle, Washington and
worked in the mailroom of KIRO-TV before taking a
temporary ten-week assignment with KOMO Television as a
news assistant for Consumer Watch and People Helper
franchise.
There she discovered a calling that would merge two of
her greatest loves-- philanthropy and journalism. In
that, Lawson was responsible for the selection,
screening, production and supervision of news stories
from conception to airing based on more than 200 calls
per week. Lawson’s conception of a relief drive for
Hurricane Andrew victims became the largest national
private drive by an organization at that time (KOMO
TV/Radio) raising $750,00 worth of supplies and
$250,000 in cash. Her conception and coordination of
several stories were critical to a 1991 Emmy nomination
and a 1992 Emmy Award for Specialty Reporting, both
firsts in the history of the People Helper Franchise.
It
was her burning desire to return to such work and the
ardent support of her friend, Andrea that served as the
inspirational catalyst for Angel Helper.
She
is editor of Breastlessness: What To Do When You Don’t
Know What To Do, a breast cancer memoir and manual by
Nicole Bryant.
She
has won two National Mature Media Awards and the St.
Louis Association of Black Journalism Award for
Excellence.
“When work,
commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach
that deep well where passion lives, nothing is
impossible.”
Nancy Coey
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