Yolanda ParksCultivating the next generation of storytellers

Yolanda Parks is an Emmy award-winning Producer-Writer with 20 years of experience in television production.  As an independent Producer-Director-Writer, Ms. Parks has brought her talents to productions for, CBS, E! Entertainment Television, Universal Pictures, HBO, Lifetime Television, Women’s Entertainment Television, ESPN, HGTV and the TV Guide Network. Ms. Parks has more than 85 credits in documentary, reality, lifestyle and educational programming.

Ms. Parks also has a literary credit to her list of accomplishments, writing “Children and Families First”. The Chronicle published by the Casey Family Programs, was a story about the dramatic transformation of Alameda County, California’s foster care system.

Teaching and community outreach are just as important to her as her work as a storyteller.