Biographies


Yolanda Brunson
Melvina Douse-Manuel

 

 

 

 

Yolanda Brunson

Yolanda is a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology (93) and Kingsborough Community College (91), with degrees in Marketing Merchandise Management and Fashion Merchandising. She’s worked at various levels of the fashion industry. Her experience has been based in fashion production with accounts stemming from Liz Claiborne, Sigrid Olsen, and Wal-mart (Intimate Apparel, Kid’s, Outerwear & Jr. Sweaters). She’s worked on the first production of Roca-wear men’s apparel in 1998. She’s also traveled overseas and worked on production with factories in China and Hong Kong. Currently she’s the Associate Product Line Manager for a well name Active-wear company.

Writing has been a growing talent as a youth. She participated in youth playwriting programs, which was brought to class production in junior high school.

Here’s a list of some of her accomplishments up to date:

-She’s contributed a piece in published works “All The Man I Need- Black Women’s Loving Expressions On The Men They Desire”. Gateway Publishers

-A member of D.E.C.A- a national marketing organization, and SWAN –Single Women’s Alliance Network, a network for professional women.

-She formed and marketed and distributed her own mail order accessory/ gift catalog “Peaces by Mail” in 1994-1995.

- The Associate Writer for God’s Girls & Guys monthly newsletter.

-Yolanda has also taken realm on consultation. She has and continues to counsel for self- start fashion oriented clients interested in the concepts without industry experience.

Yolanda is the author of The Ins and Outs of the Fashion Industry- From a Fashion Insider. Yolanda has a true entrepreneur spirit to allow her dreams to become reality, and the current success of The Laundry Source has excelled and makes possible room for a bigger and brighter future for new things to prosper-such as Spitfir Productions.

-Yolanda has also mastered the art of product placement and her work has been featured in 2 independent films.

-Yolanda is Co-Founder of Fashion Emerge- as on-line wonder that is making a mark in it's own way.


 Melvina Douse-Manuel

Melvina is a graduate from St. Francis College in 1995 with a BA in communication Arts.

Her area of study included- Film Analysis and Criticism, Basic and Advanced Film and Video Production, Basic Black and White Photography, Writing for Film, Theatre, and Acting. 

She’s worked several internships that broadened her experience and interest in writing for theatre and screen. She’s interned with an independent production company called Ready or Not Productions, and has been involved in editing the weekly music video show entitled “Make It or Break It”.

Melvina has interned with The Montel Williams show. Her involvement with the show included working with segment producers to develop show topics, screening potential guests and general production assistant duties.

After graduation from St. Francis College, she worked as a youth consultant on "The Global Action Project" (GAP). This was a youth based video team designed to give inner city youth the opportunity to produce videos on issues that concerned them. Her participation on short documentaries focused on the Clinton presidential campaigns and were shown on Manhattan Neighborhood Network.               

Current projects include a one act play on the 1993 Crown Heights riots, and a screen play on urban crime. She produced a theatre showcase off off broadway, in February 2002 at the legendary Producer's Club in New York. The Theme of the showcase was devoted to women and issues involving being HIV positive. Melvina self produced the entire show including two works which she wrote herself.

Melvina is consistently involved in youth issues; she is a certified Brooklyn Cable Access Television community producer, which produces Urban Teens, a quarterly special shown on Brooklyn Cable Access geared towards the social issues that inner city youth face.  

In addition to exploring her theatre writing talents, she has also completed a 1-hour documentary treatment on hate crime issues and its profound impact on the Gay and Lesbian community. The documentary centers on the Matthew Shepard.

Through her passion for writing, she hopes to continue educating the public on important political issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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