Two Multiracial Sisters Writing About Their Experiences Together with Catherine M. Greenspan and Elizabeth A. Atkins, Ep. 145

Ep. 145: Catherine M. Greenspan and Elizabeth A. Atkins are sisters.  They are two sisters.  They are 2 Sisters Writing.  https://www.twosisterswriting.com/

In fact, they are two Multiracial sisters, who are writers and who share their experiences together through a wide variety of writing.

Catherine holds a Master of Arts degree in Writing from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan.

She also earned a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at Centro de Lenguas e Intercambio Cultural via the University of Cambridge International House, Seville, Spain. She has taught university-level English, Creative Writing and English as a Second Language. 

Catherine is a past recipient of writing grants from the Sierra Arts Foundation and the Nevada Arts Council. She has done extensive freelance writing and editing, including a recurring community-focused column, where she highlighted the work of nonprofits, as well as regular restaurant reviews, book reviews, features articles and cover stories, including an interview with Nigerian playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Catherine honed her business skills and financial acumen during her decade-long tenure in the brokerage industry while working as a registered representative at both Fortune 100 companies as well as small, independent, family-owned businesses.

Elizabeth Ann Atkins is a best-selling author, actress, TV host and award-winning journalist who uses a multimedia platform to inspire people to unlock their infinite potential and live with passion, prosperity, health and happiness. 

Elizabeth’s desire to empower others springs from a trailblazing matrix of colorblind love and courage from her mother, an African American and Italian judge, and her father, a former Roman Catholic priest who was English, French Canadian and Cherokee.  They taught her to challenge the status quo by writing innovative ideas to edu-tain people.

With a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Elizabeth has written nearly 20 books, including novels White Chocolate, Dark Secret and Twilight (with Billy Dee Williams).  She also composed My American Success Story:  Always the First, Never the Last, a memoir for Roy S. Roberts, once the world’s highest-ranking black automotive executive. 

Current clients include executives, prominent government and civic leaders, physicians, a surgeon, an intuitive medium, a family that triumphed on NBC's The Biggest Loser, an insurance agent and a quadriplegic man who lived his dream to become a record company CEO.  Her novellas about empowering women to overcome abuse and identity crises were published in My Blue Suede Shoes:  An Anthology and Other People’s Skin:  An Anthology.  

A health and fitness enthusiast whose 100-pound weight loss was featured on Oprah, Elizabeth co-hosts a weekly television show, MI Healthy Mind, which promotes wellness by shattering stigmas around taboo topics such as mental illness, addiction and abuse.

She is a popular writing coach whose PowerJournalTM program teaches people to enrich their lives with journal-writing.  She has taught writing at Wayne State University, Oakland University, Wayne County Community College District, and at national conferences.

A speaker who promotes human harmony, Elizabeth is represented by The American Program Bureau.  She rouses ovations by reciting her autobiographical poem, White Chocolate, and has spoken at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, GM’s World Diversity Day, Gannett, 100 Black Men, the NAACP, and many other venues. 

As an actress, Elizabeth plays a major role in the feature-length film Anything Is Possible, nominated for “Best Foreign Film” by the Nollywood and African Film Critics Association.  She composed an original screenplay, Redemption, a gritty drama about a Detroit gangster and a writer.  And Elizabeth plays a 1950s journalist in the international shipwreck drama, Are The Passengers Saved? 

Elizabeth has been a guest on Oprah, Montel, NPR, Good Morning America Sunday, The CBS Evening News, and many national TV shows.  After writing her master’s thesis about mixed-race Americans, her work appeared in The New York Times, The San Diego Tribune, Essence, Ebony and many publications. 

Her Detroit News articles on race were nominated for The Pulitzer Prize, and she wrote a biography for the Presidential Medal of Freedom tribute for Rosa Parks.

Listen as they tell Alex about their lives:

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