GREETINGS ALL

THE AAAEE WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US THESE PAST 8 YEAR. THE AAAEE WILL NOT BE HOSTING THE AUTHORS & EMPOWERMENT EXPO IN 2018 BUT PLEASE LOOK FOR US TO RETURN IN 2019.

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Featured Authors

Dr. Rose Stiffin

I was raised and educated in Indianola, Mississippi, notably the Delta hometown of the late blues legend, BB King. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Mississippi Valley State University (1974), my Master of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from Mississippi State University (1981), and my PhD (Biochemistry) from the University of Tennessee in Memphis (1995). I did my post-doctoral work at the world-famous hospital, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee (virology and immunology). As part of my master’s and PhD, I helped in the development of research that earned two patents, one in insecticide chemistry, and the other in the potential of developing a drug to treat diabetes at the molecular level. Currently, I am the Chair of the Division of Health and Natural Sciences at Florida Memorial University. As part of our ongoing research, we have synthesized a plethora of compounds that have shown wide biological activity as antimicrobials and anticancer agents. I have collaborated with researchers at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Oregon, Spelman College, the National Cancer Institute, Scripps Research Institute, and the University of Miami, to name a few.
I have written several short stories and had some of them published in the Imagine literary magazine. I have also been published in the Algonquin Quarterly (“The Water Buffalo and Pink Flamingo”) and in an anthology For Your Eyes Only (“Casino Blues”). Walk in Bethel is my first novel. This novel won an international competition in General Fiction (June, 2015), in which I traveled to Paris to receive the award. I have published three additional novels, Reflections, Groovin’ on the Half Shell, and A Winter Friend. Casino Blues is my fifth novel.

Lewanda Jackson

Lewanda R. Jackson was born and raised in Cambridge, MD on Maryland's Eastern Shore. She has been writing since she was a little girl but her dreams were placed on hold while she pursued her education, built her career, and became a mom. After high school, she attended Bowie State University for three years before moving to Wilmington, DE. After her daughter was born, she received her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration as well as her M.B.A. from Wesley College. She spent years working in the accounting field before deciding she needed a change and she enrolled in Widener University School of Law and completed the Corporate Law program where she obtained her Paralegal certificate. She now works in the Trust and Estate Planning business and in her spare time, she loves reading, cooking, traveling, and of course writing.

ALLISSEN C. JONES

You can determine your tomorrow. What are you doing today?

Allissen is the Founder of The Just Believe Project, Inc. we are a non-profit designed to assist individuals with functioning as designed. (His Design).

Do my actions line up with what I believe? My first book describes a very painful yet liberating process into the inwards of me. The curves, the lines, the connecting and disconnecting pieces of me. Forced with the CHALLENGE of my LIFE, I had to begin to tear down barriers that kept me from truly manifesting what I say I believe.

Allissen possess a Master's in Psychology and is currently working on her Doctorate in Clinical, Psychology. In addition, Allissen is a licensed nurse with emphasis in psychiatric disorders. My desire is to see real healing, real change, real growth, real manifestation.

CLEOPATRA LYTLE