| Kelvin De'Marcus Allen Non-fiction writer
Durham, NC Author, Actor, Producer, Publicist, Speaker
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen is a graduate of North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C.; and holds a Master of Arts degree in Leadership and Liberal Studies from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa. Allen is an accomplished writer and producer, with over 30 published articles and essays to his credit. He has produced television specials and training videos for ABC affiliate station WTNH- TV, New Haven, Ct., the National Cancer Institute, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Allen's career began in 1986 when he was one of only six actors chosen from a field of 500 to serve as actors and community liaisons in Los Angeles, Ca. for Kaiser Permanente and the Children's Television Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street.
In 1992, Allen’s video documentary “Imagine If” received the Connecticut Higher Education Association’s Screening Room Award for entertainment programming. To his credit, Allen has interviewed some of the most notable names in Arts/Entertainment, including award-winning actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, controversial filmmakers Spike Lee and Haile Gerima, author and filmmaker Gordon Parks, gospel music great John P. Kee, National Black Theatre Festival producer, Larry Leon Hamlin and up and coming conductor, Andre Raphel Smith.
He is producer/ host of "Body and Soul" Peer Counseling training video, the National Cancer Institute's national campaign designed to encourage African Americans to eat healthier in an effort to reduce the risks of cancer. The interactive DVD is distributed nationally to Black Churches and promoted on Urban Radio Stations throughout the country. Allen is the president and CEO of Kelvin Allen and Associates; a marketing and public relations firm based in North Carolina.
Allen is also the author of "Looking Back to Move Forward", an authentic attempt to meaningfully gauge effects of the past upon the present. In his unique exploration of selfhood, Allen risks it all as he divulges his family origins and breaks a socially-imposed silence with true stories that are oftentimes painful, heart wrenching and haunting. Looking Back to Move Forward is a straight-from-the-belly exercise in purging.
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Credits:
| Be A Writer: Your Guide to the Writing Life
(Contributor to Steve Peha and Margot Lester's book on proven tips and techniques to help young writers get started.)
2006
Author of "Looking Back to Move Forward", Reconciling the Past-Liberating the Future
(The book is an authenticating attempt to meaningfully gauge effects of the past upon the present. )
2005
Producer/Host, "Body & Soul Peer Counseling Training Video"
(National Cancer Institute's national campaign designed to encourage African Americans to eat healthier in an effort to reduce the risks of cancer. The interactive DVD is distributed nationally to Black Churches and promoted on Urban Radio Stations throughout the country.)
2005
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Other talents:
| Literature, Copy Editing/Proofing
Actor, Industrial / Corporate
Production, Producer - Video
Production, Producer - Television
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Client list: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
National Cancer Institute -
North Carolina Central University -
Duke University -
Healthy Start Academy -
Dietrich Danner (Motivational Speaker) -
Robert Comer (Motivational Speaker)
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| Over 10 years
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