ERIC CHRISTOPHER WEBB, a National Black Authors Tour Best-Selling Author, Poet, Educator

ERIC CHRISTOPHER WEBB a National Black Authors’ Tour best-selling author, poet, educator and social entrepreneur, is also a Senior Fellow of the Khepera Center for Expression & Social Change.

Webb, a former Washington News Correspondent for Thomson Newspapers and publisher of SOULS magazine, is the author of four books and has served as a visiting artist and speaker at several colleges and institutions nationwide, including the University of Pennsylvania, Smith College, The Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Art Gallery and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Frick Art Museum, Temple University, Rust College and Lincoln University (PA), sharing the stage with the likes of the legendary Last Poets, poet Sonia Sanchez, Jazz vocalist Jean Carne, inspirational speaker and best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant, actor Clifton Powell, Grammy-award-winning R&B vocalist Jeffrey Osborne.

Consecutively named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Webb has taught at The New School for Enterprise and Development, Prince George’s Community-Based Classroom, Prince George’s County Schools, Prince George’s Community College, The Graduate School, USDA, Temple University PASCEP and The Alternative Learning Institute.

A former Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the National Capital Area board member, who has established and participated in rites of passage, mentoring and anti-gang programs for at-risk youth in Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC, he serves on the board of directors of the Khepera Center for Expression & Social Change, the National Black Authors Tour, the National Association of Black Writers, the American Biographical Institute’s Research Board of Advisors and board president of the Literacy Council of Prince George’s County, MD.

Webb has developed and established national media advocacy campaigns and initiatives employing artistic expression to address tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, youth violence prevention, child abuse and drug rehabilitation for poor mothers. He has also performed and conducted workshops with juvenile offenders at St. Gabriel’s youth detention center, with adult offenders at Graterford Prison and for the National Criminal Justice Association at Temple University.

Having received his bachelor’s degree in English and Journalism from Lincoln University, PA with graduate studies at Howard University and fellowships from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps of Journalism, Howard University, The Freedom Forum and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education’s Institutes for Writing, Reading & Civic Education and the Media and American Democracy, he is listed in Who’s Who Among Writers, Editors and Poets, Who’s Who In Poetry and Poets Encyclopedia, International Directory of Distinguished Leadership and Outstanding Young Men of America. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including The Living of A Legacy Award, Black Achievers’ Award for Distinguished Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Writing Profession and both Lincoln University’s Poet of the Laureate of the Year and its School of Humanities’ Alumni Recognition Awards.

Webb is currently completing his long-awaited debut novel, tentatively titled, Slaves To The Game: The Garvey Protocol, a conspiracy thriller taking on issues of race, urban neglect and government complicity. Email: [email protected]