Advisory Board
Melvin Claxton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, screenwriter and media consultant. He has held senior writing positions at the Chicago Tribune, Detroit News and Virgin Islands Daily News.
Diane Urban is currently one of three outstanding co-administrators/founders of the internationally acclaimed IYPAD Facebook Peoples’ Movement, an initiative that has ignited this worldwide social network in uniting African descendants across the globe, and Diane is also President of IYPAD International Inc. NFP. Diane’s passion for her community and vision for its’ future spawned the development of this organization named in honor of the International Year of People of African Descent. This accomplishment is the culmination of Diane’s long standing commitment to community service which includes membership in the National Leadership Party of Oak Park, Illinois, assisting in the slating process of local trustees in Oak Park, Illinois. Diane also served as co-president of the African-American Parents for Purposeful Leadership in Education at Oak Park River Forest High School, her alma mater. Diane also has helped develop Bras For Hope, a non-profit organization that provides post-mastectomy undergarments to cancer survivors. Diane is also on the advisory board for James Weeks’ movie, Across The Kings River, soon to be released. Diane participated in The Symposium on the Presidency in Washington, DC and has an educational background in Political Science and Marketing and Sales.
Raychelle LeBlanc is a networking, motivating and publicity maverick.
Always the entrepreneur, Raychelle began her marketing career in 1995, as co-founder of DETRICS ENTERTAINMENT: a media company based in San Diego, California that specialized in concert showcases and the promotions of California musical talent.
Generating a buzz for her marvelously successfully events, LeBlanc was asked to head the management and publicity departments for CLOCKWORK MANAGEMENT, a company based in both Los Angeles and New York. There she oversaw the needs of her client Black Ceaser of TOMMY BOY RECORDS. Read More >>
Across the King’s River is ever so grateful for the counsel of fundraising legend Tom Ahern who gives so freely of his time and expertise. One of North America’s top authorities on fundraising, advocacy and persuasion communications, Tom Ahern is the author of three well-regarded books on fundraising communications and has won three prestigious Gold Quill awards, given annually to communications programs judged to be among the most effective in the world. Tom Ahern is one of North America’s leading authorities on effective donor communications. He is a top-ranked speaker, in demand for major fundraising conferences.
Tim Beachum, AKA as Rey El, is a Visionary, Author, filmmaker and Philosopher whose ebooks and public appearances have made him a self-made celebrity. He is also a Internet Marketing Expert as well as an Honorary Scholar of the Ojibway tribe — one of the world’s oldest Native American tribes. For more information about Tim’s services visit: http://timbeachum.com/about/
