Michon Boston provides consulting services to organizations, institutions, and individuals for production of public programs, media projects, documentaries, and events marketing. She has developed public outreach initiatives in the humanities, arts, and media including symposia, and grass-roots leadership/civic engagement training for adults and youth. Recent client projects include The Big Read – D.C. (part of the Big Read a national initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts), ITVS Community Cinema, DC Community Heritage Project, and WHUT’s “Eyes on the Prize” community outreach campaign.
Michon Boston has worked as Director of Programs for the Humanities Council of Washington, DC including production of their television programs, “Maya Angelou: Gather Together in Her Name (A Heart’s Day special), “d.c. humanities,” and “Humanities Profiled” creating consistent branding for both programs. Michon also has worked in television programming with PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) where she managed program evaluation for the national service and worked with the CPB national minority consortium.
In addition to her media-related work, Michon is a produced and published playwright. Her play, “Iola’s Letter,” based on the events that transformed Ida B. Wells from a journalist to a staunch anti-lynching activist, was published in the anthology Strange Fruit: Plays On Lynching By American Women edited by Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens (Indiana University Press).
Michon received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on black women who attended Oberlin College. Her project papers are part of the manuscript collection at the New York City Library’s Schomburg Research Center for Black Culture in New York.
Michon has an extensive cross-cultural background in arts, media, and social culture. She serves on the board of directors for the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, and the advisory board for KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.