Yanick Rice Lamb Editorial Director, Heart & Soul
Award-winning
journalist and author Yanick Rice Lamb returns to the helm of Heart
& Soul as editorial director. 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 from 800,000 to 1.3 million in
three short years.
Yanick has kept her fingers on the pulse of young men and women as a lecturer and News-Editorial Sequence Coordinator in the Department of Journalism at Howard University in Washington . 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 a reporter at The Toledo Blade . Yanick and her staffs have won numerous editorial and design awards, including a Folio: Editorial Excellence Award and a McDonald's Black History Maker of Today Award in Journalism.
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 .
A graduate of Ohio State University , she will also receive a master's in business administration from Howard University during this academic year. She is married and has one son.
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