Abigail Flanders, a prolific writer and orator, is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a nationally award-winning television veteran, who has been on both sides of a camera lens. She was the host of a local show, "Outreach" for seven years in Charlotte, North Carolina and a major on-air and creative contributor to WBTV's innovative magazine broadcast, "Top of the Day" during the seventies and eighties. Flanders was also co-host of Atlanta's Ecumenical Services honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, produced by Coretta Scott King in 1988. She was the Community Affairs Director at WBTV, moving from there to become the Community Affairs Director at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. Known in literary and other circles as "Abby," she has climbed the corporate ladder of success in the hierarchy of the broadcast medium, as Marketing Manager for television stations in Huntsville, Alabama and Jackson, Mississippi, and Director of Affiliate Relations for AccuWeather, while continuing her nod to print with columns in local periodicals like "Pride Magazine," and "Women Looking Ahead" based in Atlanta, Georgia; regional magazine, "Perspective" and has been a contributor to "Upscale," the national culturally diverse magazine, in which she penned the article, "Mr. Mom." Her documentary, "Sweet Auburn," based on the story of African-American historic pioneers in Atlanta, garnered her a national award from the National Association of Black Journalists. A public service announcement she wrote and produced, "Prom Night," was awarded a national EMMY. She is an author of "Fowler's Snare: Assassination and Resurrection of the Human Spirit," a book in which she releases her own reflections of life and its processes, brilliantly weaving the dark threads of challenges into the bright primary shades of hope, faith and steadfastness needed to overcome struggles.
