Sylvia Coleman "Experience is your best teacher" Company: Write Professional Media, LLC Location: Philadelphia, PA Website: www.writeprofessional.com

Biography:
Sylvia Coleman, BA, CMT, is an award-winning health journalist, editor and author who specializes in topics of sexual abuse and trauma.

Coleman has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University, Philadelphia. During her career, Coleman served as the coordinator for the Philadelphia and New Jersey editions of the Learning Key, a weekly educational supplement for The Philadelphia Tribune. Under her direction, the Learning Key received the National Newspaper Association Award for Best Youth Section in 2000.

Coleman later served as assistant editor for Advance for Nurses, one of the nation's premier clinical publications for registered nurses. While there, Coleman created Kaleidoscope, a monthly column that focused on different nursing cultures. A ground-breaking addition to the magazine, Kaleidoscope topics ranged from racial inequities to gender and health inequalities. In 2003, she won the first place prize for "Forgive and Forget," a column she wrote about the workplace discrimination faced by a nurse recovering from drug-addiction.

Coleman also received an award in the profile division for "Nursing the Homeless Holistically," an article that focused on the gallant efforts of one nurse to provide complementary health modalities to homeless and drug-addicted populations in Washington, DC. Coleman has also received the Mary Alice Rowdenhosier Award in writing; the Alan R. Yoffee Award in writing and the Golf Writer's Schripp Award in writing.

During her career, Coleman has interviewed Jada Pinkett-Smith, Jill Scott and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, to name a few. Top Corporate clients have included: Bank of America, GlaxoSmithKline and Friends Hospital.
Coleman recently published, Creating a New Normal: Cleaning Up a Dysfunctional Life, a book that chronicles her recovery from sexual abuse, homelessness and severe depression. Coleman also teaches the From Victim to Victor workshop for African-American sexual abuse survivors at the Temple University PASCEP program in Philadelphia, and abroad. Coleman recently received the prestigious Leeway Foundation grant to create: www.blacksurvivors.org, the nation s first official online support group and resource center for African-American sexual abuse survivors.

Coleman has also been featured on Wake Up Live in Boston, Praise 103.9, WRNB 107.9 and Borders Bookstore discussing sexual abuse.

Availability:
Coleman is available to speak on topics of sexual abuse, healing from trauma and how to write your story for publication.