Joy Keys chats with the authors of They Carried Us

  They Carried Us- The Social impact of Philadelhia's Black Women Leaders,  by Allener M. Baker-Rogers  (Author), Fasaha M. Traylor (Author) ======= Allener is a native West Philadelphian who now resides in Virginia. She is an honorary board member and former president of the Philadelphia child-advocacy organization, Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY). She served on mayoral advisory committees, and was a governor’s appointee and board chair of the Philadelphia County Assistance Office (PCAO). A lifelong educator, and having earned a doctorate in higher-education leadership from Widener University in 2003, Allener is a former academic-department director and assistant professor of educational research. She is a past recipient of the Jane S. Abrams and Cecil B. Moore Community Service Awards and a longtime volunteer with the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. ======== Fasaha has been an educator, activist, writer, administrator, board chair and foundation officer. She founded and directed an independent school, operated programs to link the resources of a local university with community needs and taught in public alternative-education programs. She was a copy editor at a major metropolitan newspaper, served on the board of a national human-rights organization—the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and was board chair of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families as well as Public Citizens for Children and Youth. She cofounded the Ain’t I a Woman Network—an activist group formed in the wake of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings—and is a principal of Lift Every Voice, LLC. The recipient of many awards and fellowships, she received a National Science Foundation fellowship, the Art Peters Memorial Fellowship (journalism) and the Temple University Urban Fellowship.