Kemi Olunloyo voted as the Communications Director and Publicist for the CABJ.

BORN: The Board of the Canadian Association of Black Journalists has appointed Olukemi Olunloyo as the new Communications Director/Publicist and Spokesperson for the organization. Below is her official biography.

Kemi is a freelance News Correspondent stationed in Canada. She started her career as a Pharmacist in 1988/89 graduating from The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, the first Pharmacy school in the US (1821). In 1996, she started a broadcast career as a Medical Talk Show Host on CBS Radio's V103FM/Heaven 600AM Baltimore. In 1996, she graduated from Goucher College School of Public Relations in Maryland, USA and in 2002, she made her broadcasting career official by attending the Broadcasting Institute of Maryland as a news major where she learned TV and Radio news.

Beginning in 1997, she became a Freelance Medical Reporter for the Baltimore Times, wrote and produced investigational medical stories for WBAL-TV, Baltimore and CNN Medical Bureau in Washington DC notably the acclaimed 1997 CNN undercover investigational story about the "dangers of teens and rave parties" where kids do psychedelic drugs in abandoned buildings and party all night. In 1999, she was named local PR Spokeswoman for CVS Corporation, America's largest drugstore and her pharmacy employer of 15 years. Kemi worked in Media, PR and Pharmacy at the same time.

She interned and learned radio news at WBAL Radio the top News/talker in Baltimore and credits Editor/Producer/Reporter Angela Jackson and News Director Mark Miller who gave her the hands on experience and thus developed her passion for radio news. She consequently moved to Atlanta in 2003 where she worked mostly freelance with several media organizations doing traffic news, radio news, anchoring TV documentaries, voice overs and even blogging as a contributor for the local paper in the "radio talk" section of the AJC (Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspapers.)

After 23 years, she left the States with her family to return home to work for Radio Nigeria as a Radio Host/News Anchor. While home in Nigeria, she did some Vee-Jay work with MTV Africa known as MTV Base.

Kemi has received several broadcast, pharmacy and community awards including a Nigeria Media Merit award for 2007 Best Female Radio Personality, a shared Emmy award for an investigational story she wrote about "the problem of forged prescriptions in America", The Governor of Maryland's 1997 Volunteer of the Year award, 1996 Johnson & Johnson's Pharmacist of the Year (My Favorite Pharmacist contest where the public enters their favorite Pharmacist and wins $1500 and the winning Pharmacist's favorite charity gets $1000/he or she gets a plaque), 2006 Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria "Pharmacist of the Year" and more awards to mention.

She has been profiled in hundreds of magazines including Atlanta Woman (2005), A 2005 AJC Real Estate Cover story(Avonlea resident has gift of bringing people together), Nigerian Tribune, Newswatch (Nigeria's Newsweek/McLeans) (2006), America's "Time Magazine" on the dangers of Al-Qaeda hiding in Africa (1998), several tabloids in Nigeria (City People Magazine's 500 Nigerian Celebrity Women), cover story of "Famasi magazine" (The annual journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria.)

A 2005 AJC Real Estate Cover story: Below her black jacket is a green strip of the story inside which reads "People on the inside: Avonlea resident has gift for bringing people together....Page 6"

Kemi's residential street in the estate where she lived was named after her in Atlanta, Georgia after developing an afterschool program for teens who had nothing to do after school as a result of no transportation in and out to malls etc, since the parents were at work with the cars and the school buses were all they saw to and from home. Kemi opened her garage up for homework, music, snacks and peer counseling 3 days a week after finishing work in her home office/ broadcast recording studios. She publishes the daily website www.Keminications.com a media news gossip site in Toronto originally launched in Atlanta, USA and inspired by her media mentor Dave Hughes, founder of DCRTV.Com who's concept of media news blogging started a lot of websites. Keminications is well acclaimed by several media organizations in exposing the public and journalists alike to the world of media people. Keminications Media now blogs www.hiphossip.com, Canada's only complete hip-hop and R&B gossip site.

Kemi moved to Canada in June 2007, lives in Toronto and is a single parent of 3 sons, 21, 16 and 7. On the upcoming 20th anniversary of her pharmacy class, she hopes to travel to Philadelphia next year to celebrate with old classmates she hasn't laid her eyes on since 1988! She still practices pharmacy only as a fill in relief pharmacist occasionally and is an active member of NATAS (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), NAWOJ (Nigerian Association of Women Journalists), APC (The world renowned Atlanta Press Club) and of course the CABJ. She can be reached at mediakemi@rogers.com or mediakemi@canada.com and also 647-344-5390. She can also be reached at the CABJ website at CABJ.Ca and communications@cabj.ca. Stay tuned to read her mission for the CABJ.