FELECIA HENDERSON
EX-OFFICIO MEMBER
Felecia Henderson is immediate past president of Detroit NABJ. She is Director of Cultural Competency at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She is a coach on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging issues to 100-plus print and broadcast news organizations in the Knight-Lenfest Table Stakes digital newsroom innovation program. She also leads Maynard’s Fault Lines® training program and the cultural competency program for colleges and universities.
Prior to joining the institute, Felecia was an assistant managing editor at The Detroit News where she was a member of the senior management team responsible for newsroom operations. She began her journalism career at her hometown newspaper, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, KY, graduated from the Maynard Institute’s Editing Program for Minority Journalists at the University of Arizona, and held editing roles at the Detroit Free Press and Cincinnati Post.
Felecia earned a bachelor’s degree in Radio-TV/Journalism from Murray State University and a master of organization development from Bowling Green State University.