Our Patrons - Friends of the CV Drum News who believe that journalism should be positive and fair
Since 2005, the CV Drum News has received constant support (financial and moral) from a number of individuals and organizations. The left photo is of Dr. Bryant Williams, a legendary pediatrician in Stockton, who has been a CV Drum patron the longest. Dr. Williams is a graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. We ask that you join us in publicly thanking Dr. Williams and all of our patrons for believing in our mission, which is to positively tell African-American stories throughout the Central Valley.
Patrons are regularly featured on page 3 of the CV Drum News and also at this website. If you are interested in becoming or remaining a patron or making a donation to the CV Drum News, please click this patrons link on this page. Patrons also receive the publication for 16 months, which is an additional four months beyond the regular one-year subscription.
Some other current patrons include; CalGrants.Org, The City of Tracy, the Gallo Center for the Arts (Modesto), St. Matthew Baptist Church - Dr. Jerry C. Huey, pastor (Merced), Ronald Hart. M.D. (Stockton physician), Evelyn Tolbert (Tracy City Council), Hon. William J. Murray (San Joaquin County Superior Court judge), the Esquire Club (Stockton), Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (Central Valley), Manteca Unified School District, Benjamin & Janie Reddish (Stockton educators), Col. (Ret.) Cleveland & Doris Edwards (Stockton), Barbara Lenoir (retired banking industry, Los Angeles), Janet Lilly, ABD (Stockton; former President, San Joaquin County African-American Chamber of Commerce), Ola Murchison (Stockton, educator), the Patricia Lloyd Scholarship Concert Association (Central Valley), Moses D. Elam, M.D. (Physician in Chief, Kaiser Permanente), and Katie Peters, Ed.D. (educator, Manteca Unified School District).
Patrons are regularly featured on page 3 of the CV Drum News and also at this website. If you are interested in becoming or remaining a patron or making a donation to the CV Drum News, please click this patrons link on this page. Patrons also receive the publication for 16 months, which is an additional four months beyond the regular one-year subscription.
Some other current patrons include; CalGrants.Org, The City of Tracy, the Gallo Center for the Arts (Modesto), St. Matthew Baptist Church - Dr. Jerry C. Huey, pastor (Merced), Ronald Hart. M.D. (Stockton physician), Evelyn Tolbert (Tracy City Council), Hon. William J. Murray (San Joaquin County Superior Court judge), the Esquire Club (Stockton), Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (Central Valley), Manteca Unified School District, Benjamin & Janie Reddish (Stockton educators), Col. (Ret.) Cleveland & Doris Edwards (Stockton), Barbara Lenoir (retired banking industry, Los Angeles), Janet Lilly, ABD (Stockton; former President, San Joaquin County African-American Chamber of Commerce), Ola Murchison (Stockton, educator), the Patricia Lloyd Scholarship Concert Association (Central Valley), Moses D. Elam, M.D. (Physician in Chief, Kaiser Permanente), and Katie Peters, Ed.D. (educator, Manteca Unified School District).
The CV Drum News Advisory Board - Our eyes and ears throughout the Central Valley & Central Coast
The current CV Drum Advisory Board of professionals consists of Necola Adams (Merced), Shani Adams (Stockton), Melyssa Barrett (Tracy), Peter Barrett (Tracy), Wendy Byrd (Modesto), Rev. Willie Douglas (Stockton), Jacquelyn Forte (Turlock), Sylvia Fuller (Atwater), Ebony Humphrey (Modesto), Keesha Jackson (Oroville), Denise McCoy (Elk Grove/Sacramento) and Cleveland Percy (Redding). Cleveland Percy is pictured left.
In addition, our CV Drum Student Ambassadors team consists of Summer Wimberly (Princeton ‘10), Jamari Perry (UC-Berkeley ‘11), Lakea Youngblood (UCLA ‘11), Ekeoma Nwadibia (UCLA ‘11), Ashley Hampton (UoPacific ‘11), Jamel Seagraves (Stanford ‘11), Arayle Freels (Howard ‘12), Matthew Miller (Stanford ‘12), Thurson Lopes (Morehouse ‘12), Ashley Gordon (UC-Merced ‘12), Jewels Boone (San Francisco State '13) and Brionna Lewis (high school senior, Elk Grove Unified School District).
In addition, our CV Drum Student Ambassadors team consists of Summer Wimberly (Princeton ‘10), Jamari Perry (UC-Berkeley ‘11), Lakea Youngblood (UCLA ‘11), Ekeoma Nwadibia (UCLA ‘11), Ashley Hampton (UoPacific ‘11), Jamel Seagraves (Stanford ‘11), Arayle Freels (Howard ‘12), Matthew Miller (Stanford ‘12), Thurson Lopes (Morehouse ‘12), Ashley Gordon (UC-Merced ‘12), Jewels Boone (San Francisco State '13) and Brionna Lewis (high school senior, Elk Grove Unified School District).
If you are interested in working for the CV Drum News as a photographer, writer or advertising accounts rep,
please call or email us @ (209) 403-6356 or email @ [email protected] or go to the Contact Page.
CV Drum News editor and founder (below right photo)
Keith Orlando Hilton, Ph.D. - Journalism experience includes teaching college journalism, faculty founder of and adviser to the top collegiate newsletter in the country in 2005 (as chosen by the Society for Collegiate Journalists), campus student newspaper adviser, nationally syndicated columnist, managing editor and chief of staff at a California African-American newspaper that won more national awards than any other African-American newspaper west of the Mississippi River during his time there, past chair of the diversity committee for College Media Advisers, Inc., founded six publications (one scholarly, two literary and three pop), and 1st African-American to earn a journalism degree from his undergraduate alma mater. In addition, his Ph.D. is from research-extensive Claremont Graduate University of the highly regarded Claremont Colleges. CGU is one of only four private research-extensive universities in California (the other three are Stanford, Cal Tech and University of Southern California). He is married and the proud father of three beautiful, intelligent, educated daughters (the youngest is a graduate of the great Howard University). Dr. Hilton is also president and CEO of the CV Drum News' parent organization, INVR Standards / HHEW.
If you are interested in working for the CV Drum News as a photographer, writer or advertising accounts rep,
please call or email us @ (209) 403-6356 or email @ [email protected] or go to the Contact Page.
please call or email us @ (209) 403-6356 or email @ [email protected] or go to the Contact Page.