Nadine Pinede
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Nadine Pinede

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Nadine Pinede is a poet, author, editor, and translator. The daughter of Haitian immigrants who were forced into exile by dictatorship, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned her master’s from Oxford University, an MFA from the Whidbey Writers Workshop, and a PhD in Philosophy of Education with a minor in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University. Her professional experience includes working with the American Refugee Committee and Grantmakers without Borders, where she co-led a delegation to Haiti to support the activist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner Chavannes Jean-Baptiste. Her grant writing funded a mentorship program for artists with disabilities and a multi-year summer camp on sustainable development. Nadine was also a speechwriter for the first Black president of a Big Ten university and for an HBCU chancellor and equity advocate who received the Drum Major for Justice award from President Obama. Nadine is a CASE Periodical Award winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, and Hurston/Wright finalist, with fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, VONA, Ragdale, and the Brown Foundation. Her work appears in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Haiti Noir, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Nadine’s chapter on the Haitian Revolution translated from French was published in the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. Online, her work appears on NPR’s Poets Weave, the On Being blog, and in Resources for Race, Equity, and Inclusion on Diversebooks.org. Nadine is author of An Invisible Geography, a collection of poetry of place and exile, Sexism & Race, and Women in Film, selected for the SCBWI Recommended Reading List and nominated for a Crystal Kite Award. She has been a mentee for the Representation Matters Publishing Program and We Need Diverse Books, and she is a Poet Laureate for the Global Black Caucus.
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