Bio: Yanick Rice Lamb
Yanick Rice Lamb
Associate Publisher/Editorial Director, Heart & Soul
Award-winning journalist and author Yanick Rice Lamb returned to the helm of Heart & Soul for the second time as editorial director and now associate publisher. Her editorial vision led to the health and fitness publication becoming one of the largest and most successful magazines targeted to African Americans.
She experienced similar results as founding editor of BET Weekend, helping it become the second-largest publication targeted to African
Americans with a circulation that grew by 32 percent from 800,000 to 1.3 million in just three years.
Yanick has kept her fingers on the pulse of young men and women as an associate professor and coordinator of the Print/Online Journalism Sequence in the John H. Johnson School of Communication at Howard University in Washington. At Howard, she is grooming the next generation of magazine professionals by advising Cover 2 Cover, which hosts a national magazine conference each spring, and by launching 101 Magazine, a national publication for undergraduate and graduate students. She has also served as a magazine publishing consultant, an editor-at-large at Essence and a contributing editor for Emerge.
Previously, Yanick worked for The New York Times Company for 10 years, most
recently as a senior editor at Child magazine. At The New York Times, she worked in various roles, including assistant style editor, deputy home and living editor, assistant editor of the Connecticut Weekly, and metropolitan copy editor. She was also a copy editor at The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta Journal and a reporter at The Blade in Toledo, Ohio. Yanick and her staffs have won numerous editorial and design awards, including a Folio: Editorial Excellence Award, a McDonald’s Black History Maker of Today Award in Journalism and several Salute to Excellence Awards from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Yanick, who served twice as president of the New York Association of Black
Journalists, is the co-author of Born to Win: The Authorized Biography
of Althea Gibson. She also wrote the text for The Spirit of African Design and was a contributor to Health & Healing for African-Americans, Sisterfriend Soul Journeys and Aunties.
She holds a bachelor’s in journalism from The Ohio State University and MBA from Howard University. She has one son and lives in the Washington, D.C., area.
Hello Yanick,
First of all I want to thank you for the Twitter follow!
My husband and I think you are the daughter of a very long time friend, William R. Rice, please confirm. If so your father and my husband with to Kent State together many years ago. He is visited us a few times when he was in this area, and we visited him when he was hospitalized many years ago at John’s Hopkins.
I’m president of SalonVoices, Inc. We’re a salon reputation management company whose specialty is customer satisfaction surveys and a new rating system.
Whether or not the connection I’ve mentioned exist, I hope I might have an opportunity to speak with you about what I envision for Salon Voices.