Meet Our Contributors

Courtney Daniel

Our 603 Diversity calendar was researched and compiled by Courtney Daniel, a creative strategist, designer, life coach and radio show host.Daniel has worked with national celebrities and even designed a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. She lives on the Seacoast where, in her spare time, you can find her interviewing community members through her online group No To Patterns.

Nour Habib

Our Review page is by Nour Habib, a journalist currently covering issues surrounding race and equity in New Hampshire. Previously, she spenty ears as a newspaper reporter in Oklahoma where she did everything from education to city government reporting to writing movie reviews and lifestyle features.

Rony Camille

Our feature story on the power of food for cultural understanding, “The Vessel of Unity,” was written by Rony Camille, a freelance journalist(and son of Haitian immigrants) based in Nashua. A media manager with a focus in digital editorial content and operations, Camille is currently the media program director for the Town of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts.

Deo Mwano

Essayist Deo Mwano is a nationally recognized speaker and expert in diversity, equity and inclusion. Mwano designs services, initiatives,campaigns, and products for businesses, schools and nonprofits with a DEI focus via Deo Mwano Consultancy. He’s been named as one of the state’s “40 Under Forty” by the NH Union Leader and is a 2017 graduate of Leadership New Hampshire.

Constance Cherise

Constance Cherise, writer of our “Positively Main Street” feature story, is a three-time award-winning NH Press Association freelancer. Her regular arts/entertainment gigs include assignments for Manchester Ink Link and the Turner Classic Movies Tumblr. For more of her work, visit constancecherise.wixsite.com/mysite.

James McKim

Essayist James McKim is president of the Manchester branch of the NAACP and managing partner for Organizational Ignition. McKim has led organizations such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, FIRST, Hawkeye Data LLC, and Digital Equipment Corp. in launches of new products and performance enhancements.

Carolina Valenti

Carolina Valenti, who wrote our feature on New Hampshire’s Business Alliance for People of Color, is a Colombian-born writer and finance professional. She has been a contributor for CNBC, CNN, Mamás Latinas and El Diario NY, among others, on topics such as political elections,social issues, celebrities and culture. She is also a children’s book author and lives in New Hampshire her husband, three kids and two dogs.

Robert Ortiz

Primary photographer for this premiere issue of 603 Diversity is Robert Ortiz of Robert Ortiz Photography. Ortiz began his photographic career at 15 and has chronicled everything from local weddings and events to the lives of the native peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. He lives in Rochester with his wife and son and 15-year-old daughter, Isabella, who is currently in training as his photo assistant.

Richard Haynes

603 Diversity stories emphasize not only how things are, but how they might or even “ought” to be as we seek out and reveal our state’s diverse communities. When we needed a single image to summarize the mission of this magazine, we went to a man who has long been telling complex stories with bold stokes of color and universal symbols. Artist Richard Haynes provided a selection from his recent work for this purpose. See page 10 for more on Haynes and page 4 for how you can fashionably spread the good words.

Photo by Jeremy Gasowski/University of New Hampshire