Stacey
Patton
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1978.
A scholarship student at the Lawrenceville Preparatory School, she
went on to attend Johns Hopkins University and later New York
University where she graduated with honors.
Patton is completing her Ph.D. in
African American History at Rutgers University.
She has written for The Washington
Post, The Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, and Scholastic Magazine,
and is the recipient of numerous journalism awards and academic
honors.
