About Sylvia

Sylvia Coleman, BA, CMT, is an award-winning health journalist, bestselling author and coach for sexual abuse survivors. She has interviewed the likes of Jill Scott, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, to name a few. Past corporate clients include: Bank of America, GlaxoSmithKline and Friends Hospital. Coleman has also been featured on: NPR, "Wake Up Live" in Boston, Temple University, Praise 103.9, 107.9 WRNB and Borders Bookstore discussing sexual abuse. She is the recipient of the:

•     2007 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant
•     2003 Merion Publications’ Writers Excellence Awards: First
   Place, Editorial Division
•     2001 Merion Publications’ Writers Excellence Awards: First 
   Place, Feature Division
•     2000 National Newspaper Association Award for Best 
   Youth Section
•     1995 Golf Writer’s Schripp Award in writing
•     1994 Mary Alice Rowdenhosier Award in writing
•     1994 Alan R. Yoffee Award in writing

 
Coleman, a staunch advocate for sexual abuse survivors, taught the “From Victim to Victor” class for sexual abuse survivors with the Temple University PASCEP program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2003-2009. In 2008, with the help of a grant from the prestigious Leeway Foundation, Coleman created and launched: www.blacksurvivors.org, a national online support group and online resource center for African-American sexual abuse survivors. She now conducts workshops and telecourse for trauma and sexual abuse survivors.

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