You're invited to come meet Detroit's own Rochelle Riley as she is awarded the 2013 Bookwoman Award by the Women’s National Book Association. Rochelle Riley has won numerous awards, including the 2013 National Headliner Award and the 2013 Distinguished Leadership in Media award. She is a past winner of the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award and the Neal Shine Award for Media Commitment to Philanthropy. She is a four-time winner of the Michigan Associated Press Editorial Association Award, a two-time winner of a first place Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, and her columns covering the city’s corruption scandal were included in the entry that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

 The Detroit Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association is honored to bestow the 2013 Bookwoman Award to Rochelle Riley.  Presentation of the Bookwoman Award will be a brunch held on Saturday, September 28th at BRAVO Cucina Italiana, 17700 Haggerty Road, Livonia MI 48152, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m..

Space is limited and tickets are $25.00.

 
 
 
Make Checks Payable to: WNBA Detroit Chapter  ~ By Sunday, September 15, 2013
 
Mail to: WNBA Detroit Chapter

c/o Margaret Auer, Treasurer

28444 Los Olas Drive

Warren, MI 48093

 

 
Posted on behalf of: 
 
Margaret E. Auer, Dean
University Libraries and Instructional Technology
Treasurer, Women's National Book Association Detroit Chapter (wnba-books.org/Detroit)
University of Detroit Mercy
4001 W. McNichols Rd.
Detroit, MI  48221-3038


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