Bio: Yanick Rice Lamb
Yanick Rice Lamb
Editorial Director, Heart & Soul
Award-winning
journalist and author Yanick Rice Lamb returns to the helm of Heart
& Soul as editorial director. Her editorial vision led to the
health and fitness publication becoming one of the largest and most
successful magazines targeted to African Americans.
She experienced similar results as founding editor of BET Weekend ,
helping it become the second-largest publication targeted to African
Americans with a circulation that grew from 800,000 to 1.3 million in
three short years.
Yanick
has kept her fingers on the pulse of young men and women as a lecturer
and News-Editorial Sequence Coordinator in the Department of Journalism
at Howard University in Washington . She has also served as a magazine
publishing consultant, an editor-at-large at Essence and a contributing
editor for Emerge .
Previously,
Yanick worked for The New York Times Company for 10 years, most
recently as a senior editor at Child magazine. At The New York Times,
she worked in various roles, including assistant style editor, deputy
home and living editor, assistant editor of the Connecticut Weekly ,
and metropolitan copy editor. She was also a copy editor at The Atlanta
Constitution and a reporter at The Toledo Blade . Yanick and her staffs
have won numerous editorial and design awards, including a Folio:
Editorial Excellence Award and a McDonald’s Black History Maker of
Today Award in Journalism.
Yanick,
who served twice as president of the New York Association of Black
Journalists, is the co-author of Born to Win: The Authorized Biography
of Althea Gibson . She also wrote the text for The Spirit of African
Design and was a contributor to Health & Healing for
African-Americans, Sisterfriend Soul Journeys and Aunties .
A
graduate of Ohio State University , she will also receive a master’s in
business administration from Howard University during this academic
year. She is married and has one son.
