Wanda Smalls Lloyd
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Wanda Smalls Lloyd

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Wanda Lloyd is a wife, mother, retired newspaper editor and she is a speaker on topics of race, diversity and leadership. She grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and left home for college and a career as an editor at seven daily newspapers, including USA Today and The Washington Post. She retired in 2013 as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama, and returned to Georgia to become department chair and associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University. Her memoir, “COMING FULL CIRCLE: From Jim Crow to Journalism” was published in February 2020. She is co-editor and she wrote one of the 15 essays in "MEETING AT THE TABLE: African American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community." She contributed an essay in the anthology "On Womanhood: Connecting and Thriving in Every Season." She is co-editor and she wrote a chapter in “THE EDGE OF CHANGE: Women in the Twenty-First Century Press.” She is co-host, co-executive producer (with novelist Tina McElroy Ansa) of the podcast "2 Old Chicks Who Know a Lot of Sh*t!" Spelman College, her alma mater, awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 2016, and in 2019 she was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.
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