Yanick Rice Lamb, Howard University
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Dr. Yanick Rice Lamb is an independent journalist, author, professor and former chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Howard University, where she runs HUNewsService.com and teaches reporting, editing, and health and science writing.
Dr. Rice Lamb is also co-founder of the health website FierceforBlackWomen.com. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Heart & Soul and BET Weekend magazines; an editor at the N.Y. Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Child and Essence magazines; a reporter at the Toledo Blade; and a contributing editor for Emerge: Black America’s Newsmagazine.
She specializes in environmental health, climate change and social issues. The Center for Public Integrity and Belt Magazine co-published her award-winning three-part series, “Unintended Consequences: The Rubber Industry’s Toxic Legacy in Akron,” with the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
She is currently writing In My Backyard: How Pollution and Climate Change Are Making Black America Sick to Death for the Amistad division of HarperCollins. She is also a contributor to We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices for Justice for Black Men and co-author of Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson and the bid whist book Rise & Fly.
Dr. Rice Lamb, who has a son and grandson, loves working with young people and recently celebrated her 20th anniversary at the Mecca.
Bio
Dr. Yanick Rice Lamb is an independent journalist, author, professor and former chair of the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Howard University, where she runs HUNewsService.com and teaches reporting, editing, and health and science writing.
Dr. Rice Lamb is also co-founder of the health website FierceforBlackWomen.com. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Heart & Soul and BET Weekend magazines; an editor at the N.Y. Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Child and Essence magazines; a reporter at the Toledo Blade; and a contributing editor for Emerge: Black America’s Newsmagazine.
She specializes in environmental health, climate change and social issues. The Center for Public Integrity and Belt Magazine co-published her award-winning three-part series, “Unintended Consequences: The Rubber Industry’s Toxic Legacy in Akron,” with the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
She is currently writing In My Backyard: How Pollution and Climate Change Are Making Black America Sick to Death for the Amistad division of HarperCollins. She is also a contributor to We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices for Justice for Black Men and co-author of Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson and the bid whist book Rise & Fly.
Dr. Rice Lamb, who has a son and grandson, loves working with young people and recently celebrated her 20th anniversary at the Mecca.