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Janice Curtis Greene is an award-winning Master Storyteller and author, an American Griot. She has been telling African, African American and Multicultural stories for over 25 years. She is President and Life Member of the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) and Past President and Life Member of the Griots' Circle of Maryland, Inc. Mrs. Greene was appointed by Governor Lawrence Hogan's to serve as a Commissioner on the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture.
Janice Curtis Greene has delighted adult and student audiences at various venues both nationally and internationally with traditional and original folktales of the African Diaspora. Janice mesmerizes her audiences with folktales, historical, motivational and healing stories and Bible Stories set to syncopated Rap rhythms. Janice has performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and is also known for her portrayals of historical African American females such as Harriett Tubman, Rosa Parks, Phillis Wheatley, Soujourner Truth, Verda F. Welcome and more.
Mrs. Greene received a Citation from Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for first children's book, Thema and the Wonderful Black Gourd, and her contribution to African American Literature. Her work is also featured in "Sayin' Somethin': Stories from the National Association of Black Storytellers and "What we Have Seen and Heard: Essays and Stories from Black Catholics of Baltimore".
Mrs. Greene has won numerous awards including the Continentals, Inc. Community Service Award and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority's 2015 Woman of the Year in Cultural Arts and Harriet Tubman Lifetime Achievement Awards. She lives in Windsor Mill, MD with her husband of 46 years.
Mrs. Greene can be contacted via her web-site: www.janicethegriot.com
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