Voice Matters
Ponchitta Pierce is a communications expert with extensive experience in interviewing, writing, editing, research, and compiling oral histories.
Ponchitta Pierce
Ponchitta Pierce
Turkey today calls to mind Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. His name means “Father of the Turks,” an honorific appropriate for the man who led the l922–23 War of Independence that toppled the ruling sultans and established Turkey as a secular republic. Inspired to modernize the country by political and social change, Atatürk single-mindedly pushed bold, far-reaching…
The world of tomorrow will present thorny challenges as we navigate natural disasters, public health crises such as HIV/AIDS, the rising tide of globalization, the constant threat of terrorism and nuclear war, the uncertainty of peace in the Middle East, and the emergence of China as a world power. Technological changes will force us to…
From time to time, the Carnegie Reporter explores issues relating to philanthropy. In this essay, noted broadcast and print journalist Ponchitta Pierce takes a personal look at how a group of prominent African Americans view philanthropic giving and examines the relationship of philanthropy and the black community in the United States. At a time when…
