{"id":2994,"date":"2023-05-23T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2023-07-01T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:56:53","slug":"media-release-2023-newsmaker-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/media-release-2023-newsmaker-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Release: 2023 Newsmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kristen Green, bestselling author and journalist, named Newsmaker of the Year by Virginia Professional Communicators<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RICHMOND, Va. <\/strong>\u2014 Kristen Green, author and journalist, has been named Virginia Professional Communicators\u2019 2023 Newsmaker of the Year, one of the organization\u2019s top honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual VPC Newsmaker Award is given to a nominee who has made significant news in the past year or throughout their career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green, the New York Times bestselling 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<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-2048x1421.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-220x153.jpg 220w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-187x130.jpg 187w, https:\/\/vapc.org\/vapc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/KGREEN_publicitypic-1-453x314.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since then, the story of Mary Lumpkin, a formerly enslaved woman who was&nbsp;instrumental in the education of free Black men after the Civil War,&nbsp;has received the additional attention it always deserved. The school Mary Lumpkin played a role in founding in a notorious Richmond slave jail where she had been enslaved eventually became one of the nation\u2019s first historically Black colleges, now known as Virginia Union University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKristen&#8217;s book illuminates what life was like for the thousands of enslaved Black women whose names have&nbsp;been lost to history,\u201d said Cathy Jett, who nominated Green for the award. \u201cIt restores Mary Lumpkin to her proper place as a resilient woman who helped transform a place of horror into a place of learning for her people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly honored to receive this award from Virginia&nbsp;Professional Communicators,\u201d said Green. \u201cI am deeply appreciative that my reporting and writing of important Virginia history was deemed worthy of this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green\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, and multiple Richmond and Virginia publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press, who interviewed Green, 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<p>For seven years, Green searched court papers, old newspapers, census records, marriage documents and death records. She visited the places where Mary lived and the town in Ohio 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<p>Green is also 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 and the San Diego Union-Tribune. She holds a master\u2019s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and lives in Richmond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VPC\u2019s Newsmaker Award nominees are judged by a committee based on newsworthiness, public service, personal sacrifice, risk-taking, and\/or inspiration to others. Only VPC members may nominate candidates for Newsmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous Newsmaker of the Year recipients include Del. Danica Roem, Susan Greenbaum, Doris Buffett, Roxane Gilmore, Anne Holton and Nikki Giovanni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Virginia Professional Communicators is a statewide organization of professional women and men pursuing careers across the communications spectrum.&nbsp;Learn more&nbsp;at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vapc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.vapc.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Media contact: Diane Thieke,&nbsp;VPC Communications, 609-577-4075,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:diane.thieke@versiona.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">diane.thieke@versiona.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Green, author and journalist, has been named VPC&#8217;s 2023 Newsmaker of the Year, one of the organization\u2019s top honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contests-awards","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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