Podcast Team
Jamonica Brown
Jamonica Brown is the production assistant for A Colored Girl Speaks. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Fayetteville State University and is a graduate student in human development and family studies at UNC Greensboro. Her research interests focus on the effects of parental colorism messages and communication styles on African American children’s self-esteem and development.
Veronica Thornton
Veronica Thornton is the announcer for A Colored Girl Speaks. She received masters’ degrees in marriage and family counseling from Regent University and in human development and family studies from UNC Greensboro. Veronica’s research and published papers focus primarily on child/youth mental health, social justice, public policy, and religious/spiritual development. She also volunteers as a campus minister and as a mentor to college students
Deanna Floyd
Deanna Floyd is the production assistant and social media specialist for A Colored Girl Speaks. She received her bachelor’s degree in social science and is now pursuing a second undergraduate degree in psychology at UNC Greensboro. Deanna plans to pursue graduate studies with the goal of conducting research on African American mental and reproductive health.
Tiera Chiama Moore
Co-Producer and Narrator
Tiera Moore, MA is the narrator and co-producer of A Colored Girl Speaks. She received her bachelor’s degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies and a master’s degree in applied arts and sciences with a concentration in global studies from UNC Greensboro. Tiera is a spoken word artist, writer, and community organizer with interdisciplinary interests in the histories, cultures, literature, and philosophies of African peoples. Visit her 2019 TEDxUNCGreensboro talk, “Higgler is the New Hustle: Lessons from Igbo Women Entrepreneurs.”
Andrea Hunter
Scholar, teacher, producer, writer—and colored girl.
I have sought to reveal everyday people living ordinary lives who do so with agency, with dignity, with great verve, and with the full range of harmony and chaos a human being can extract from life; my aim is to uncover the human experience as well as to impact publics.