My life’s work and my personal life compelled me to write
Swift Currents,
to help lift the level of
tolerance and goodwill between the races.
I have been affiliated with Penn Center, founded as Penn School in 1862 for those emerging from slavery, in various capacities over the past decade, and I now serve on the Board of Trustees there.
Author note on writing "Swift Currents"
I hope that this story will help more young people and their parents come to a greater understanding of our shared racial history and abandon the inherited prejudice of generations.
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“Swift Currents” is a truly engrossing historical novel
that follows the trials and tribulations of a small family
as they are freed from slavery in the South in 1861.
Before Retirement 1992-2004– Deputy Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, US Agency for International Development. Managed the Agency’s EEO complaint process, and conducted investigations, mediation and training in Washington and overseas, including work in South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Peru, Jamaica, and the Philippines. 1987-1992– Equal Opportunity Specialist, Office for Civil Rights, US Environmental Protection Agency. Conducted EEO complaint investigations, wrote case decisions, developed environmental justice policy, and created an Agency partnership with a city junior high school. 1975-1986– Equal Opportunity Specialist, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, US Commission on Civil Rights. Researched and wrote chapters in Commission publications and Congressional testimony on school desegregation and equal opportunity in higher education. 1972-1975– US Department of Agriculture. Conducted investigations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prevent discrimination in Federally-assisted programs. Duke University graduate (BA, 1972), father of two, grandfather of three.
