Sunday Morning Magazine With Rodney Lear

• Paige Chenault, Founder and CEO of The Birthday Party Project. Alongside the nationwide celebrations of reading and Dr. Seuss’s birthday, Random House Children’s Books, together with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, will partner with The Birthday Party Project, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing joy to children experiencing homelessness through the magic of birthday celebrations.

• Tamar Haspel writes the James Beard Award-winning Washington Post column Unearthed, which tackles food from every angle: agriculture, nutrition, obesity, the food environment, and DIY. She’s also written for Discover, National Geographic’s The Plate, Vox, Slate, Eater, Fortune, and Edible Cape Cod. Tamar is the author of the book, TO BOLDLY GROW: Finding Joy, Adventure and Dinner in Your Own Backyard.

• Tim Timmerman, Co-Host, Jeff and Jenn Morning Show, Licensed Real Estate Agent https://twitter.com/r8diotim?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-timmerman-0992b716 • Joycelyn Leathers, Licensed Real Estate Agent Keller Williams Seven Hills https://www.instagram.com/joycelynleathers/?hl=en

Vicki Yates-Orr, Former News Anchor, WKRC-TV. When Vicki Yates brings you the news every night at 4p.m. and 6p.m., you are benefiting from more than three decades of experience and award winning reporting. Her career began in Detroit, Michigan while attending college. As a freelance reporter, she worked for Michigan's number one minority newspaper, The Michigan Chronicle. While a junior at Michigan State University, she was hired to work at WJIM-TV as a news reporter. She drew some tough assignments, including the crime beat and various issues at MSU. From there, Vicki went on to work as a newswriter, producer and news reporter at two other stations in Michigan and Ohio. Vicki's talent eventually landed her an anchor/news reporter position at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, where she helped make the noon newscast number one in the market. Before joining the NewsChannel 5 team, Vicki anchored and reported at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for five years. She has won six Emmys for among other reports, a mini do

Betsy Ross is an Emmy® award winning sports reporter and president of Game Day Communications, a sports and entertainment communications firm based in Cincinnati and founded in 2002. As one of the first women to break into national sports news, Ross most recently worked as an anchor at ESPN for five years. Before anchoring SportsCenter and ESPNews, Ross worked at NBC News Channel and Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate, WLWT?TV, for seven years, where she covered the 1996 Presidential Election and Inauguration and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and Olympic trials. She continues to be involved in sports broadcasting as play?by?play anchor for women’s college basketball for ESPN, Fox Sports and other national and regional outlets, and as a sports reporter for Cincinnati’s FOX 19. She won a regional Emmy® for her work on the broadcast of the Lauren Hill Mt. St. Joseph-Hilliard College basketball game at Xavier University in November 2014. She is also part of the crew for Junglevision during Cincinnati Bengals’ home g

CAROL WILLIAMS WAS A MAIN ANCHOR AND REPORTER AT WCPO-TV FOR OVER 30 YEARS, STARTING IN 1986. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO ANCHOR THE NEWS AT 11 AT THE STATION. SHE ANCHORED AT 5, 6 AND 11 FROM 1986 UNTIL SHE RETIRED IN 2017. DURING THAT TIME, CAROL INTERVIEWED PRESIDENTS CLINTON AND OBAMA, OPRAH WINFREY AND HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER. SHE COVERED THE BENGALS’ TRIP TO THE SUPERBOWL, THE BEARCATS’ TRIP TO THE FINAL FOUR, POLITICAL CONVENTIONS AND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. SINCE RETIRING FROM NEWS, CAROL HAS ENJOYED A VARIETY OF ENDEAVORS, INCLUDING TRAVELING CROSS-COUNTRY WITH HER DAUGHTER, TEACHING BROADCAST WRITING AT U.C., TAKING IMPROV, TUTORING AT CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND BEING ON THE BOARD OF THE LITERACY NETWORK. AND AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF WORKING AT 11, SHE HAS ESPECIALLY ENJOYED HAVING DINNER WITH HER HUSBAND AT NIGHT!

Carole Boston Weatherford, Author, The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights. New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford recently released Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe and R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. Her 50-plus books include the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday, NAACP Image Awards for Moses. https://cbweatherford.com/

Paula Young Shelton, Author, A Child of the Civil Rights Movement. Paula Young Shelton is the daughter of civil rights leader, Andrew Young. Mr. Young worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, Paula Young Shelton is an educator and children’s book author. She joined the show to discuss her book, A Child of the Civil Rights Movement. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/79566/paula-young-shelton/

Kenya Hunt, Author, Girl, Gurl, Grrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic. Kenya Hunt was born American and moved to London over a decade ago. As a guest on Sunday Morning Magazine, Hunt explained that her new books is a collection of essays from successful Black women. Hunt also takes an interesting angle as a fashion writer and unpacks the fashion industry as it stands through the eyes of a Black woman, and how being in the fashion industry often means she is the only Black woman in the room; and one of the few select women who can offer hope and wisdom to other women of color in the industry. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/girl-gurl-grrrl-kenya-hunt?variant=33097716957218

• Teri Shirk, President/CEO, Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired; Chris Faust, President/CEO, Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired. Teri and Chris joined the show to tell listeners about a scholarship available to individuals diagnosed as legally blind or severely visually impaired. Terri Shirk explained that the two organizations have teamed up to award five $5,000 scholarships and five $1,000 scholarships.

Julie Bogart, Author, Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age. Julie Bogart is the creator of the award-winning, innovative Brave Writer program, teaching writing and language arts to thousands of families every year. She homeschooled her five now grown children for seventeen years and is the founder of Brave Learner Home, which supports homeschooling parents through coaching and teaching. bravewriter.com | FB: @bravewriter | IG: @juliebravewriter

Julia Brewer Daily, Author, No Names To Be Given. An adopted child, Julia Brewer Daily has written a novel based on her reality of being born into a maternity home in the south during the sixties.

Cassidy joined Sunday Morning Magazine to share her journey of deciding to give her daughter up for adoption. Cassidy is involved in an open adoption and visits her daughter or a regular basis.

Marylee MacDonald, Author, Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture and Love. MacDonald is the winner of the Jeanne M. Leiby Chapbook Award, the Barry Hannah Prize, the Ron Rash Award, New Delta Reviews' Matt Clark Prize, the American Literary Fiction Prize, a Gold Medal for Drama from Readers' Favorites International Book Awards, and many others.

Poppy Harlow is a twice-Emmy-nominated journalist who co-anchors the morning edition of CNN Newsroom and hosts the successful podcast Bossfiles with Poppy Harlow. Originally from Minnesota, she now lives in Brookyln, NY, with her husband Sinisa and their children Sienna and Luca.

Tiffany D. Jackson is the author of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner Monday's Not Coming, and numerous other YA novels. She lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York. This is her first picture book. Tiffany D. Jackson is the recipient of the 2019 Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent for Monday's Not Coming, and has published several other novels to much critical acclaim.

Barbara Joosse is the writer of several children’s books. She lives high in the sky on a perch she calls The Crow’s Nest in Port Washington, Wisconsin.

• Lyn Sisson-Talbert stands tall as one of the most accomplished female producers in Hollywood and the guiding force behind top grossing original projects for film, stage, and books. Sisson-Talbert is producing Netflix's first original live-action musical Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, a 20-year passion project she has been developing alongside her husband David E. Talbert. Sisson-Talbert's other film producing credits include Fox Searchlight's Baggage Claim, Universal's Almost Christmas, both of which opened as the #1 Comedy in America, & Netflix's El Camino Christmas.

• KALLIE GEORGE is an author, editor and creative writing teacher. She has written numerous books for early readers, including the first three books in the Anne chapter book series (Anne Arrives, Anne's Kindred Spirits, Anne's School Days), The Magical Animal Adoption Agency series, The Heartwood Hotel series and The Wings of Olympus series, as well as numerous picture books, such as Goodnight, Anne, If I Couldn't Be Anne, Merry Christmas, Anne, The Secret Fawn and The Lost Gift. Kallie currently lives in Vancouver, BC.

Nancy Redd is an award-winning on-air host and bestselling author. Redd, is a frequent guest on top-rated morning talk shows like The Today Show and Good Morning America. The former Miss Virginia is the proud mother of two.