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Kendra N. Bryant (August 23, 1979-), often referred to as Kendra Nicole, was born and reared in Miami, Florida to mother, Choling (a retired educator) and father, Donald (deceased). She is the middle child of three children, one of whom is her fraternal twin sister, Kiley.
She attended high school in the Miami Lakes area and traveled to Tallahassee, Florida where she received her BA degree in Public Relations, English minor (2001) and her M.Ed. in English Education at the distinguished historically black Florida A&M University (FAMU).
At FAMU, Kendra Nicole worked in the Arts and Sciences Department of the Writing Center. She also dedicated two semesters of her graduate years as an adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College, where she taught College Preparatory English. In addition, Kendra Nicole spent some of her graduate years working as an English instructor for FAMU’s Upward Bound Summer Program, specifically Regional Institute for Math and Sciences (RIMS).
Kendra Nicole has also participated in many volunteer programs at FAMU, including conducting poetry workshops with the Runaway with Words program and the PACE Center for Girls, helping to organize FAMU’s first Artist in Bloom Festival (2003), as well as various ventures with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, of which she is a member. She also contributed many news articles to FAMU’s school newspaper The Famuan, along with other campus publications.
After receiving her M.Ed. (2003), Kendra Nicole traveled back to Miami where she obtained a teaching position in the English department at North Miami Beach Senior High School. She worked there for four years teaching 9th through 12th grade English, as well as FCAT Preparation, Intensive Reading, Creative Writing, and AP English Rhetoric and Composition. She was also the sponsor for a poetry troupe she founded called S.T.A.R. (Students Teaching A Revolution), where her members participated in youth poetry slams.
Currently, Kendra Nicole is a full-time student at the University of South Florida where she is working on a Ph.D. in English Rhetoric and Composition. As I Roc the Mic is her first self-published publication.
E-mail: miamispoet11@aol.com |
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