Janice Edwards:

Janice Edwards is an award-winning television and radio talk show host, an Emmy-nominated producer, a co-author of the international best seller, "Step Into Your Brilliance" (compiled by Rebecca Hall Gruyter), an in-demand MC and media strategist and coach. She is the creator, host and executive producer of “Janice Edwards TV: Bay Area Vista”, launched originally on NBC Bay Area in 2002, and now celebrating its 22nd year on local stations and platforms. In her inspiring career, Janice has conducted more than 12,000 interviews- guests have included Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Barack Obama, Greta Gerwig, Kevin Costner,

Robert Redford, Kerry Washington, Jerry Seinfeld, John Travolta, Gloria Steinem, Iyanla Vanzant, Les Brown, Chris Pine, Dr. Cornel West, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, John Cena and many more. She has been working in media since serving as co-host of a teen talk show at the age of 16. Her media credits include NBC Bay Area, CBS5, KRON4, KBHK's "Black Renaissance", ABC7, CreaTV and radio stations KPFA,KFAX,KKUP, and WSB. In 2019, Janice was inducted into the Black Legends of Silicon Valley Hall of Fame in the News & Documentary category. Janice is President and CEO of Edwards Unlimited, a media company that provides high quality videos, strategic communications and media packages to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and corporations share their success and philanthropic vision with the world.  Her website is www.thejaniceedwards.com and her YouTube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@tvjaniceedwards.

Janice is a recipient of the 2024 JaZzline Griot Award; she is featured in the 2022 book Legacy:The History of African Ancestry and African Americans in Silicon Valley and 2019's book African Americans in San Jose and Silicon Valley. Additional awards include 2018, 2015 and 2011 CreaTiVe Best Series Producer Awards for “Janice Edwards’ Bay Area Vista”, 2013 Trailblazer Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women: San Francisco, the Hometown Media Award to “Signature Silicon Valley” for Best Informational Talk Show, a 2010 Emmy nomination, 2011 and 2010 nominations for Woman Entrepreneur of the Year, the 2010 N.A.A.C.P. W.E. Dubois Award, the 2010 Community Service Award from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority of Silicon Valley, the 2009 American Heart Association’s Western Regional Communications Award. Her awards in 2008 included the Woman of the Year Award: Excellence for Advocacy from the Coalition on of 100 Black Women, Silicon Valley, the Caring Through Communication award from the American Cancer Society and the Bronze Award from Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay. In 2007, American Women in Radio Television awarded Janice two Kudo awards, one for "Bay Area Vista" and one for best host of a non-news program

 
Janice did her undergraduate work at Harvard University and her graduate work at the University of California Graduate School of Journalism. Before her senior year at Harvard, she studied in Spain and wrote for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.  

Janice is also a co-author of the book Quality Angles. Her chapter featured interviews with Kevin Costner, Robert Townsend, veteran news anchor Evan White, acting instructor Marlene Ryan and Yale School of Drama Director Lloyd Richards. Janice earned her Screen Actors Guild and Actors' Equity Cards, and her theatre roles included Oakland Ensemble Theatre's  two woman show "Sisters" with Anna Deveare Smith and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at the Sacramento Theatre Company.