Charlise Lyles
Charlise Lyles was born in Cleveland in 1959. She is an alumna of the A Better Chance program and a 1981 graduate of Smith College. A 1990 recipient of an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, she has worked as a reporter for the Virginian--Pilot and the Ledger-Star newspapers in Norfolk, Virginia and the Dayton Daily News. Lyles is the recipient of three awards from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. She is the co-founding editor of Catalyst Cleveland now Catalyst Ohio magazine. After ten years, she left the publication to pursue other ventures in educational equity, and creative writing. Lyles was also a Fellow in the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at the John Glenn School at The Ohio State University. Catalyst has also received three awards from The Ohio Society for Professional Journalists and is a winner of a 2007 Clarion Award from the Association of Women in Communication.
Books by Charlise Lyles
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
From the Projects to Prep School: A Memoir
by Charlise Lyles
NEW updated, softcover edition . . . A memoir of race and education, this is the story of a girl who grew up and out of the Cleveland projects in the 1960s and '70s. While growing up in Clevelan . . . [Read More]