WABJ Board Members
Demel Baber - Parliamentarian
Demel is a staff writer for the University of the District of Columbia Trilogy Newspaper and newly elected president of the UDC Journalism Club. She has more than eight years of administrative experience. At 14, she began working in D.C. Superior Courts' Center for Education Training and Development. She went on to administrative internships at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She is a native Washingtonian.
David Jones
jonesdj@washpost.com
David is a Public Relations Manager for The Washington Post. Jones is The Washington Posts' Speakers Bureau Coordinator and also manages the the Eastern High School, Howard University and Vincent E. Reed Principals Leadership Institute Programs. He is also the Associate Producer of The Washington Post's Music & Dance Scholarship Awards Program. He joined The Post's public relations department in 1998; prior to that, he was a marketing consultant for the Point of Purchase Advertising Institute and Symbology Technologies. He also served as an Adjunct English Instructor at Montgomery College and an audtior and examiner for the U.S. General Accounting Office and Department's of Justice. David was born in Berkeley, Calif., and was raised in San Jose. He holds a B.S. in marketing and economics from Howard University and a master's degree in public administration and policy from The Ohio State University.
January Payne
Donna Walker
Donna is an experienced television reporter and producer. She has worked on local and national broadcasts, including as a correspondent for BET News, and as senior producer/reporter for The Scott Report, an award-winning national newsmagazine on the Odyssey network. A longtime volunteer with WABJ and other journalism workshop programs, Donna has served as leader of WABJ's Television Workshop for the past five years. She is a Missouri native and graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She lives in Columbia, Md.
