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Janice Reaves is a passionate author, poet and motivational speaker whose talents bring cheers and tears from a wide audience of readers and listeners. The much in demand communicator’s voice, both written and spoken, gains her notoriety. Ms. Reaves performs at numerous San Francisco regional community and charitable events including "The Take Wings Foundation," founded by actress Terri J. Vaughn, the Nate Thurmond’s Playbook Charity and the In the Trenches foundation. Her gifts and natural abilities led to her sharing the stage with such artists as Erica Campbell, part of the gospel duo Mary Mary, and film star and comedic talent Cedric the Entertainer. Janice's work has also been recognized by Gail King of the highly acclaimed Oprah Magazine. Determined to make a difference in the lives of young people and the community which has compelled Ms. Reaves to write strong prose and poetry about rape, street violence in the hope to reveal how senseless and useless violence is. Her mission is to empower children. She wishes to show that their lives are valued, purposeful and meaningful for something far greater than anything that they would ever know and understand should they not choose to travel down a pathway of destruction. She presently is working to unveil in an exhibit, opening sometime in 2008, as tangible proof of the outcome of such negative behavior. Calling San Francisco home since childhood, Ms. Reaves hopes to inspire a love for reading among a generation of children. She recently completed her third book, It’s Okay to be Smart and Have God in your Heart, aimed to raise the self-esteem of youngsters, especially those in the inner city. She also penned, The Cry of the Woman, which addresses the soaring cases of HIV/AIDS among African American women and ignite an outcry to parties involved who nonchalantly spread the disease, specifically bi-sexual men. Hidden
Reality
is Ms. Reaves first book of fiction. It examines one black
woman’s dilemma of lovers - one black and the other white -
with
a surprising twist in the ending. |