Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys

Mazella Fuller, PhD,MSW,LCSW,CEDS-S, is a Clinical Associate on staff at Duke University’s Counseling and Psychological Services(CAPS). Dr. Fuller provides clinical services, consultation, and training for social work and psychology interns. Dr. Fuller has a PhD in Human Services and an MSW from Smith College School For Social Work. Dr Fuller is an Integrative Health Coach and graduate of Duke Integrative Medicine. Dr. Fuller is a member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation(iaedp) and Approved Supervisor(CEDS-S) of iaedp. She co-founded the Foundation’s African American Eating Disorders Professionals (AAEDP) Committee and has served on the advisory board for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders(ANAD). Dr. Fuller is also the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity. Dr. Fuller is also co-editor of Treating Black Women With Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (July 2020).  

Charlynn Small, PhD, LCP, CEDS-S is Assistant Director for Health Promotions at the University of Richmond’s Counseling and Psychological Services in Virginia. She received her PhD from Howard University’s School of Education. Dr. Small is a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (iaedpTM) and is a certified member and Approved Supervisor (CEDS-S) of iaedpTM. She co-founded the Foundation’s African-American Eating Disorders Professionals (AAEDP) Committee and has also served on the advisory board for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). Dr. Small is co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity and also is the co-editor of Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (July 2021).

Sophina Brown has been a professional actor since moving to New York after the University of Michigan’s B.F.A. Theatre program.

After working on Broadway and national tours for several years, she transitioned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television, yet continued to remain passionately committed to the theatre.

Favorite projects include Disney’s The Lion King, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People (La Mirada Theatre, Ovation-nominated) and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower (Long Wharf Theatre).

In 2016, she began producing award-winning theatre in Los Angeles beginning with August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, with the goal of creating more opportunities for local Black artists and serving Black audiences.

She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Support Black Theatre, a service organization dedicated to the development, enrichment and promotion of Black art, Black artists, Black theatres, and Black audiences in Los Angeles. In addition, Sophina serves as the Board Chair of Collaborative Artists Bloc and as an Advisory Board member of Creative Acts.

She has also continued to work in television playing various series regular (Shark, Numb3rs), recurring and guest starring roles (Station 19, Grey’s Anatomy, The Orville, 9-1-1, Zoo, Cherish the Day), and is currently a series regular on Lena Waithe’s groundbreaking comedy, Twenties.

Singer Jake Isaac-

Born and raised in south London, UK, Isaac began playing drums at the age of 3 and during his school years taught himself to play piano and bass guitar. By 19, Isaac had begun to make a living as a part-time session musician playing drums and bass on various jazz and rock records for a variety of international artists, including the Grammy-award winning Duffy. 

Marketing manager by day, songwriter and session musician by night, Jake began working with artists such as Cynthia Erivo, Gabrielle, and boy band Blue. Soon after, Jake began to try his hand at writing songs for himself, eventually landing his first major festival opening 'The Other Stage' at world-renowned Glastonbury music festival. Signing to the iconic Sir Elton John’s Rocket Music, Jake Isaac has since worked with and supported Sting, India Arie, Ella Eyre, Paloma Faith, Lake Street Dive, Joan As Police Woman, Angus and Julia Stone, Tori Kelly and Elton John himself.

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At the age of 25, Tamika Felder was diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. She lost her uterus, her cervix, and as a result, her fertility. Tamika opted to use her experience and her loud, powerful and humorous voice to educate other women about ways to prevent cervical cancer. By telling her story, Tamika inspired other women to start speaking about HPV and cervical cancer, which led to a network of survivors supporting each other and educating each other. From this network, Cervivor was born.

Tamika’s path of patient-to-advocate / survivor-to-Cervivor inspires and mentors not only patients and medical communities, but anyone who has struggled with obstacles in their life. Named a “Cancer Rebel,” by Newsweek in a 2017 cover story, Tamika recently released the book, Seriously, What Are You Waiting For? 13 Actions To Ignite Your Life & Achieve The Ultimate Comeback. She speaks at meetings and conferences around the globe, mobilizing audiences to address the challenges in their lives, “get unstuck” and live life with purpose.

Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, and one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community(1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner(1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. Additionally, Professor Anderson is the recipient of the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and three prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, including the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the 2021 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement.  And, he is the 2021 winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, technology & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems, and is currently serving as Senior Program Director for Community Regeneration at Groundswell, Inc.

Her ability to shepherd projects through  seemingly conflicted socio-economic currents has garnered her 8 honorary PhD's and awards such as: 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, Silicon Alley 100 by Business Insider, Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement by News Corp, and other honors from the National Building Museum, International Interior Design Association, Center for American Progress, as well as her TEDtalk (one of six to launch that site in 2006).

Majora was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (1984), Wesleyan University (1988 BA, Distinguished Alum) and New York University (MFA).  

Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in A Better One (On sale: February 1, 2022,) In this profoundly personal book, Carter writes about her brother’s murder, transforming a local dump into an award-winning park, her experiences as a woman of color confronting the “male and pale” real estate industry and what she calls the “nonprofit industrial complex,” and more. Carter candidly shares her successes, her setbacks, and her struggles as a woman of color confronting the mostly “male and pale” real estate and nonprofit and philanthropic establishments.

Actor Arjay Smith-Going from a “child actor” to an “adult actor” can be a circus ride…but luckily things worked out for actor Arjay Smith. The Southern California native began his professional acting career some 28 years ago. In 1997, he garnered the lead role in Nickelodeon's "The Journey of Allen Strange", and in 2000 recurred as Cadet Finley on FOX's "Malcolm in the Middle".

Directly following his high-school graduation, Arjay landed his first feature film co-star role alongside Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum in the blockbuster hit "The Day After Tomorrow". In 2012, Smith began a three-season run as a series regular on TNT's "Perception" starring Eric McCormack, Rachel Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan and LeVar Burton. After the series run, Arjay would go on to play recurring characters on TNT's "Major Crimes", FX's "Sons of Anarchy" and TBS’ “The Guest Book”. Currently, he recurs as James Murray on ABC’s “The Rookie”.

Jason is the son of pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis and his wife Dolores, and the youngest sibling of Wynton, Branford and Delfeayo. Together, the four brothers and their patriarch Ellis, comprise New Orleans venerable first family of jazz.

By age six, not only had Jason gotten his first real drum set, but he was also taking lessons from the legendary New Orleans drummer James Black. At age seven he was sitting in with his father’s jazz group, as well as playing with his trombonist brother Delfeayo.  Jason was progressing so rapidly as a drummer that in 1984 his father started using him consistently on engagements. Jason was starting to become a seasoned road veteran before the age of nine, even traveling to the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston for Delfeayo’s senior recital.

Shortly after graduation from NOCCA high school in 1995, Marsalis ascended to the drum throne of a new group lead by virtuoso pianist and former sideman for Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts. Despite a demanding touring schedule with Roberts, Marsalis furthered his educational goals by attending Loyola University in New Orleans, as well as studying composition with Roger Dickerson at Southern University.

New album: Music for Meditation and Relaxation part 1

Dr. Chatelain is currently a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  Previously, she was a Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.  She is a proud native of Chicago, Illinois, and she's an even prouder graduate of the following schools: St. Ignatius College Prep, the University of Missouri-Columbia (B.A. Journalism/Religious Studies), and Brown University (A.M. and Ph.D., American Civilization).  She is a scholar of African-American life and culture, and her first book South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015) reimagined the mass exodus of black Southerners to the urban North from the perspective of girls and teenage women.

Her latest book, the Pulitzer Prize winning Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black Americaexamines the intersection of the post-1968 civil rights struggle and the rise of the fast food industry.

Myriam J. A. Chancy-Guggenheim Fellow & HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College, is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and subsequently raised there and in Canada.  After obtaining her BA in English/Philosophy (4-YR ADV, with Honors), from the University of Manitoba (1989) and her MA in English Literature from Dalhousie University (1990) [pronounced Dal-house-zie], she completed her Ph. D. in English at the University of Iowa (1994).  

Myriam Chancy was awarded the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award for Best Fiction 2010 for her third novel, The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press 2010; also shortlisted in the fiction category for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature), garnered a shortlisting for Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean region category, of the Commonwealth Prize in 2004 for her first novel, Spirit of Haiti (London: Mango Publications, 2003), and published a second novel, The Scorpion’s Claw (Peepal Tree Press 2005) to critical praise.

Her novel on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, What Storm, What Thunder will appear fall 2021 with Harper Collins Canada and Tin House in the USA. At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster.