June 27, 2024
Special guest appearance with author Brenda Fulmore
Thursday, June 27, 2024, 6 pm – 8 pm
Bridges Connect Communities
By Brenda Fulmore
Please join us for this book launch and signing with Brenda Fulmore on Thursday, June 27, 2024.
About the Author:
Brenda Fulmore holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Her career spans 27 years in corporate America’s financial sector, where she held leadership roles and 12 years at Winston-Salem State University before retiring in 2022.
She was one of the leaders of the Winston-Salem Creative Corridors Coalition, a nonprofit organization during its formative years and served on the design steering committee in the development of community-linking projects, such as the Twin Arches, Strollway Bridge, and the award-winning Green Street Pedestrian Bridge. She enjoys community collaborative engagement partnerships with local and regional city officials. Through this volunteer work she was inspired to write her books.
She is serving a second term on the Winston-Salem Community Appearance Commission Board.
Brenda was born in Lumberton, NC, and moved to Brooklyn, NY, when she was three. She is from a family of 15 children and the youngest. She is a single parent of two adult daughters and a proud grandmother of eight grandchildren. She moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1993. Brenda loves family and community and enjoys playing music independently in her spare time.
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Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.