Our Authors
Dr Ayin Adams
Ayin M. Adams, native New Yorker began writing poetry at age five and
selling them on her street corner in Brooklyn for twenty-five cents.
With much success, she quickly increased her sales to fifty cents as
passerbys' enjoyed her work.
Winner of the Pat Parker Memorial Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Memorial Prose Prize, Nominated as Poet of the Year, Winner of the President's Award For Literary Excellence, Grant Winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, Winner of Sparrow Grass Publishing, Published in anthology Defjampoetry "Bum Rush The Page" 2004 top ten finalist in the Rap-It-Up BASS film competition sponsored by BET.com and Blackaids.org Foundation. 2008 Teacher of The Year Winner by the International Peace Poem. Ayin Adams holds a PhD. in Human Services and a PhD. in Metaphysics
Dr. Kathryn Waddell Takara
Kathryn Waddell Takara, born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, is
recently retired as an Associate Professor from the University of
Hawai`i at Manoa, Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the Ethnic
Studies Department, where she developed courses in African American and
African politics, history, literature, and culture beginning in 1971.
Dr. Takara is a recipient of the Board of Regents Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, a two-time Fulbright Fellow, a winner of the Girl Fest Hawai`i Award, Who’s Who in Poetry award, a Golden Poet Award, and a World of Poetry (merit) award, a two time Diversity Grant winner, University of Hawai`i, and a grant recipient for two conferences at UHM, one national and one international in contemporary black voices and black issues.
Daphne Barbee-Wooten
Daphne Barbee-Wooten has authored
several articles, Hawaii Bar Journal, Hawaii's First Black Lawyer,
February 2004, Hawaii Bar Journal, The Lawgiver: George Marion
Johnson, J.D., LLD, February 2005, Hawaii Bar Journal, "Spreading
the Aloha of Civil Rights", October 1999. Hawaii Women Lawyers "Our
Rights, Our Lives" hand book, contributing writer, co-editor
for 3rd Edition, December 1996, Essence Magazine, African Americans
in Hawaii, April 1994, Hawaii Bar Journal, "Hawaii
Civil Rights Commission", August 1993, Contributing Writer in A GO Girl!
The Black Woman's Guide to Travel and Adventure, "Visiting
Nanny Town (The Eight Mountain Press, 1997),
"Following the Tradewinds: African Americans in Hawaii", 2004,
contributing author. She also is a regular contributing writer to Mahogany
and Afro-Hawaii News, monthly periodicals which emphasize events within
the African American community in Hawaii. She was President of African
American Lawyers Association in 2003.