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, teaches the “From Victim to Victor” class for sexual abuse survivors with the Temple University PASCEP program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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.