Hilary Beard
Biography of Hilary Beard
Hilary Beard has been a book collaboration specialist helping leaders, visionaries, creatives, and gamechangers amplify their voice to empower humanity for more than 20 years. The author of 20 books and published by each of the Big Five publishers, Hilary’s clients have included Venus and Serena Williams, Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, NASA’s Katherine Johnson, and Johnson Products’ George E. Johnson. She will also consult creatively on a Hollywood A-list actor's rendition of Mr. Johnson’s story. Well versed in African American health, life, history, and culture, Hilary has won two NAACP Image Awards—for Health First: The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide and Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life. Her award-winning young adult books include The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson, and We’re in This Together by political organizer Linda Sarsour. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Hilary graduated from Princeton University and lives in Philadelphia.
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