About Iris

Author, publisher, and teacher

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We must take the time to close the windows and doors to the world, look within ourselves and hear what our inner selves are saying.

Iris Raeshaun

began her writing career as a freelancer for USA Today, The Chicago Defender, The Crisis magazine and became an education reporter for Gannett, Inc. working out of the company’s Tennessee (The Leaf Chronicle, The Williamson County Herald) and Mississippi (The Hattiesburg American) markets.  She became publisher and editor of OURNEWS magazine, the Mississippi Pine Belt’s premiere faith-based publication for which she was named 2007 Business Person of the Year by Robinson-Watson Book Company. Previously, she received the Chicago Black Women’s Expo’s Phenomenal Woman Award presented by founder Merry Green and Poet Laureate Maya Angelou in recognition for supporting homeless individuals through her organization Servants of Christ the King and Savior.

Raeshaun took religious courses at Loyola University Chicago, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, and is a Texas ESL-licensed educator and minister. 

 

 

 

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