Kendra Lee, Executive Editor
Kendra Lee, Heart & Soul’s executive editor, has been a professional editor and writer for two decades. An award-winning writer and editor, Lee has provided editorial services on a wide variety of printed materials for clients such as the AFL-CIO, National Medical Association, Black Entertainment Television, LEXIS, the Health Resources Services Administration and the Office of Minority Health. She has been both a staff editor (Heart & Soul, YSB and Urbane magazines) and a contributing editor (The Crisis, Upscale and Soul of Virginia magazines).
In addition, her writing has appeared in national and regional magazines and web sites, as well as in association publications. Lee is also an accomplished business writer, having produced collateral materials for clients such as Choice Hotels International, the National Coalition Building Institute and the American Lung Association. She has been a public affairs officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she coordinated the
Agency’s radio network on a number of national disasters.
Lee is a contributing writer to four books (Like a Natural Woman, One Hand in My Pocket, Dr. Ro’s Ten Secrets to Livin’ Healthy, Tomorrow Begins Today: African American Women As We Age), and she is currently at work on a young adult novel and a book about surviving heartbreak.
