{"id":2844,"date":"2023-02-21T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2023-02-21T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:59:31","slug":"2023-newsmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/2023-newsmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Newsmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introducing our 2023 Newsmaker of the Year: Kristen Green<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Nicole van Esselstyn<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times best-selling author and former Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter published her latest book, \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South\u2019s Most Notorious Slave Jail,\u201d in April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Since then, the story of Mary Lumpkin, a formerly enslaved woman who was instrumental in educating Blacks after the Civil War, has gotten the additional attention it always deserved. Mary\u2019s school \u2013 starting in a notorious slave jail in Richmond \u2013 eventually became one of the nation\u2019s first historically Black colleges, now known as Virginia Union University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual Virginia Professional Communicators’ Newsmaker Award is given to a nominee who has made significant news in the past year or throughout their career. The nominee should be either from an under-represented group or someone who has served an under-represented group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen\u2019s work received news coverage in national and cultural media outlets and is informing a new generation of learners and leaders. Media outlets that covered Kristen\u2019s story included CBS, the Smithsonian magazine, The Washington Post, multiple Richmond and Virginia publications, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press, who interviewed Kristen, reported, \u201cIndividuals and narratives from the past\u201d such as Mary Lumpkin \u201coffer us guidance toward creating a better America and a better world today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For seven years, Kristen searched court papers, old newspapers, census records, marriage documents and death records. She visited the places where Mary lived and the town where she was buried. Mary\u2019s story had largely been forgotten and even some of her descendants didn\u2019t know about her, but now her story is available to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us in congratulating Kristen at our annual VPC spring meeting and learn more about her and the incredible story of Mary Lumpkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Green is a reporter and the author of the New York Times bestseller \u201cSomething Must Be Done About Prince Edward County,\u201d which received the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction and the People\u2019s Choice Award. She has worked as a journalist for two decades for newspapers including the Boston Globe, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She holds a master\u2019s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and lives in Richmond, Virginia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introducing our 2023 Newsmaker of the Year: Kristen Green By Nicole van Esselstyn The New York Times best-selling author and former Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter published her latest book, \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South\u2019s Most Notorious Slave Jail,\u201d in April 2022. 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