{"id":16258,"date":"2011-02-15T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/16258\/hero-nina-womack\/"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:51:22","slug":"hero-nina-womack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/16258\/hero-nina-womack\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hero &#8211; Nina Womack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actress, Director, Producer, CEO, Urban Media Collective.<\/p>\n<p>Intent on giving back to the community and creating social change, this creative entrepreneur has over nine years experience producing &amp; organizing the youth components at community events, such as the African Marketplace &amp; Cultural Faire, The Malcolm X Festival, and the Leimert Park Village Book Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Her company, Nile Productions mission statement is to provide \u201cedu-tainment\u201d for the youth through entertainment, education, and self- empowerment. During these years, she\u2019s aligned herself with numerous non-profits who share similar views.<\/p>\n<p>Having real-life experience as a troubled teen herself, Nina remains dedicated to helping youth. Under the umbrella of her film company, Urban Media Collective, she co-produced and co-directed a 30-minute inspirational documentary called, Exit Strategies profiling former gang members who have successfully exited out of gangs. This project was made possible from a grant from the Black Hollywood &amp; Education Resource Center (BHERC Fights Back With Film Program) run by Sandra Evers-Manly.<\/p>\n<p>I met Nina several years ago via MySpace.  She is truly a hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress, Director, Producer, CEO, Urban Media Collective. Intent on giving back to the community and creating social change, this creative entrepreneur has over nine years experience producing &amp; organizing the youth components at community events, such as the African Marketplace &amp; Cultural Faire, The Malcolm X Festival, and the Leimert Park Village Book Festival. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}