Edith Billups is a media relations consultant and seasoned journalist with more than 37 years of experience. She formerly was a staff writer for The Virginian-Pilot Newspaper in Norfolk, VA and general manager of WDCU-FM Radio, a public jazz station in Washington, DC. She currently is a free-lance arts reviewer for The Washington Informer Newspaper in Washington, DC and a free-lance travel writer for Black Meetings and Tourism Magazine in Winnetka, CA. Her media relations consulting business, The Gabriel Media Group, specializes in socially conscious projects that uplift humanity.