About Us
Racing Toward Diversity magazine showcases the best diversity efforts and initiatives being made today. Written with business and educational audiences in mind. Stories highlight messages from influential leaders and their organizations. With our concentration on driving strong relevant content through global social media platforms our quarterly magazine, daily newspaper and blog reaches over 1.2 million readers, via Twitter (@fleejack and @race2diversity) Facebook and LinkedIn.
Approximately (30%) of our subscribers/followers have been self described from the following industries (8%) Information Technology and Services, (7%) Marketing and Advertising, (6%) Human Resources, (5%) Staffing and Recruiting and (4%) Financial Services. Our Founder and CEO, Fields Jackson @fleejack (Twitter) has been recently recognized by Working Mother Magazine as one of Five Diversity Thought Leaders You Should be Following on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/3mkfzbd and among 21 Of The Top Black Social Media Influencers by Mitch Mitchell @Mitch_M http://tinyurl.com/3upqav4
Fields Jackson - Founder & CEO
Fields Jackson, Jr. is currently the Founder and CEO of Racing Toward Diversity Magazine, Cary, NC and an adjunct professor, teaching Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing, at Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois.
From 1994 to 2011 Fields served as president of Charles Fields, Inc, Cary, NC. Charles Fields, Inc provided art work, lithographs, posters and premium items to colleges, universities and corporations.
Fields Jackson, Jr. on the race track with a local Boy Scout.
Jackson is currently working with HiTekPos, Raleigh, North Carolina (www.hi-tekpos.com) as a marketing consultant and advisor. From 1998 to 2001 Jackson served on the Executive Board of Advisors for Oklahoma Sooners Illustrated Magazine. Jackson was appointed in 1998 to 2000 to the Davidson County, North Carolina Board of Commissions Workforce Development. From 1995 to 1998 Jackson served as secretary of the Board of Directors, American Diabetes Association, North Carolina Affiliate. From 1980 to 1982 he served on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers, Erie, PA, and Family Services Inc.
credit: E. Lee White Photography
Ray Pellecchia, NYSE, Fields Jackson and Reggie Howard, United Athletes Foundation.Fields received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. Fields received his MBA Degree from Northern Illinois.
Writers
I grew up in the Carolinas and graduated from high school in Monroe, N.C., where the trial in Blest Be The Tie That Binds takes place. I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a bachelor of arts in religion in 1975 and earned a Master of Theological Studies from Trinity Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.
From 1981 to 1993, I was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer assigned to the Monroe Bureau, covering government, politics, business, religion, and human interest stories. I had a weekly column covering agriculture in the Carolinas and twice received the N.C. Farm Bureau’s writing award. I lived in Union County, married and had six children during those years, becoming familiar with the County’s history, culture and rhythms of life. Among other things, my articles led to the changing of a creek’s official name from Niggerhead to Salem. When the 1886 County Courthouse (the site of the trial) was restored in 1986, I wrote a self-guided tour of the building for the historical society.
From August 1993 to December 2007, I taught at Trinity School at Greenlawn in South Bend, Ind., a private nonsectarian school that has three times received the U.S. Department of Education's Blue Ribbon for Excellence in Education. I was director of the writing program for the school, grades seven through twelve, and taught, among other things, British and American literature (including Twain, Sinclair, Dickens, Tolkien, Cather, Hemingway an Harper Lee). I regularly led senior colloquia on topics such as mythic imagination and historiography. I continued to write extensively, freelancing 300 to 400 stories a year for the South Bend Tribune. In January 2008, I returned to full-time writing as a freelance and a principle in Write Smack Dab LLC, a group I formed with my son and a former teaching colleague. I have written books, including the history of the LOGAN center for the people with developmental disabilities in South Bend and privately-published family legacy books, as well as journalistic articles, book chapters, websites and press releases.
Natalie Davis Miller
Natalie Davis Miller has been a freelance writer for the past 12 years. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., she is a resident of South Bend, Ind. She is involved in a number of volunteer efforts and organizations in the area including St. Margaret’s House (shelter for women), Rebuilding Together, and the South Bend Community School Corporation’s Young Authors’ Conference. She is actively involved with the South Bend Civic Theatre as a board member, and as an actress in a number of productions including the nationally recognized, award-winning production of Intimate Apparel in 2009. She is currently directing Or does it Explode? at the Center for History in South Bend.In addition to writing for Racing Toward Diversity, Miller is a monthly columnist for IN Michiana magazine. She has had articles published in the Indianapolis Star, NUVO Newsweekly, the South Bend Tribune, Literally (Writers’ Center of Indiana) POWER, The Bend, Home and Style, Total Body, Northern Indiana Wedding Day, Southwest Michigan Wedding Day, Prom Night, IN Michiana, Inside Granger, and Courier (Saint Mary’s College). Additionally, she has written trivia questions for Mattel, articles for the Web, and numerous marketing pieces. In 2003 she was the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission.
Prior to her writing career, Miller spent 15 years in law enforcement, as a police officer, and as a law enforcement coordinator and victim witness specialist for the Department of Justice. She was also a writer and reviewer of Federal grants.
Miller has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Indiana University. In addition to freelance writing and her volunteer activities, she is also an adjunct instructor of English and psychology courses at a local community college.
Miller says, “I believe that writing is my gift from God. I also believe it is my responsibility to hone these skills as a writer, and I want to be the best writer that I can be.”
Jae Bryson is a serial entrepreneur and author with experience in a variety of writing styles. His career includes stints as a journalist for the Quad-City Times, the Star Tribune, the River Cities Reader, Minnesota Public Radio and Colors Magazine. His extensive freelance credits include Word Up!, Essence and REQUEST magazines.
Cheryl Jackson is a freelance correspondent who has worked for CNN, PBS and Racing Towards Diversity magazine.
Highlights of her work for CNN include coverage of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal, where the bodies of many African-Americans were ripped from their graves, left in piles and their graves resold. Also, for CNN, the hour-by-hour live coverage of the Christmas Day “underwear bomber.” She is very proud of the project, “For Colored Girls” she produced for PBS.
Cheryl interviewed both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as they campaigned in 2008.
Cheryl is a contributing writer for Racing Towards Diversity magazine and has written numerous profiles and features, including a story analyzing the role of race and poverty in collecting data for the U.S. Census.
She is also a visiting professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and has taught newspaper writing and broadcast classes at Indiana University and DePaul University.
Cheryl Jackson started her journalism career as a feature’s reporter and newspaper diversity columnist. She wrote her column, "It Takes All Kinds" for the Columbus Republic for more than a decade. The content of the column was designed to promote understanding through diversity writing on race and culture in a positive way.
Her first job in television was as a convergence reporter, working for both WSBT/TV and the newspaper, the South Bend Tribune. She did a live report for WSBT five days a week and then flipped many of those stories into print for the Tribune. She often shot the photos that accompanied the print piece. She continued her broadcast career at WRTV in Indianapolis before moving to Chicago to freelance for CNN.
Executive Assistant and Fundraising Coordinator. Tasha is responsible for the day to day administration of the social media platforms, coordination of fundraising programs and events. Tasha is currently pursuing her Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education at University of Phoenix.