Ronald Childs:
CLASS OF 1977
Glenbard South High SchoolClass of 1977
Glen ellyn, IL
Grambling State UniversityClass of 1982
Grambling, LA
Glen Crest Junior High SchoolClass of 1974
Glen ellyn, IL
Teller Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
Denver, CO
Ronald's Story
Life
Ronald E. Childs is an award-winning writer, editor, public relations practitioner and photographer whose work frequently appears in Black-interest publications throughout the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil and Great Britain.
He also currently is vice president, media relations for Flowers Communications Group, the largest African-American-owned public relations firm in the Midwest.
A 1982 graduate of the school of journalism at Grambling State University of Louisiana, Childs, 50, was formerly a media strategist and senior account executive with Burrell Communications Group, LLC, the nation's preeminent African American-owned marketing-communicatio...Expand for more
ns and advertising firm.
Prior to his tenure at Burrell, Childs was a communications specialist, speechwriter and assistant press secretary, respectively, to Chicago mayor Harold Washington, until the prominent chief executive's untimely death in 1987. After his tenure at City Hall, he became assistant director of publicity and promotion and associate editor of Johnson Publishing Company's EM [EBONY MAN] magazine, at that time the only internationally-circulated lifestyle publication dedicated to the needs, interests and aspirations of African American men.
He is the single father of one son, Kimani, and resides in Chicago's south loop neighborhood.
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