Sunny Nash
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Bill Watkins, owner of WTAW, had heard Sunny Nash's voice many years before she wrote a book or graduated from college or done most of the things that led her to the Texas Capitol Rotunda. Watkins heard the voice on a Radio Shack Holiday commercial after Nash returned from New York to attend college. Watkins wanted that voice on his radio morning news. He called and asked for a meeting about a position in his newsroom. Nash was skeptical -- No news experience? Cowboy music? -- But went for the meeting and the rest is history.
Beginning her journalism career in the Central Texas newsroom of Country Radio Station, WTAW-AM, in Bryan, Texas, where she became the first female mainstream broadcast news reporter in the Brazos Valley. During her WTAW tenure, she was attending Texas A&M University (TAMU), where she became the first black journalism graduate of the University. While at WTAW, Nash covered Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic at the Texas World Speedway in 1974, only the second picnic of Nelson's infamous festivals, where a fire broke out in the parking lot during the event.
After graduation in 1977, Nash went from country to classical, signing NPR (National Public Radio) affiliate KAMU-FM on the air as the station’s first Program Director and becoming a regular contributor to Morning Edition. At the NPR affiliate, she created classical music programs, including the weekly series, Collector's Choice, hosted by world renowned physicist and chair TAMU Physics Dept., Dr. Gilbert Plass, a climate change pioneer. His scientific reputation endures, classical music program still in syndication, and influence shapes Nash's career to this day. As a broadcast instructor, Nash taught live and studio audio production, splice editing, remote setup, electronics and radio announcing to KAMU-FM students.
Nash's earliest exposure to electronics began when she was in elementary. Principal O.W. Sadberry, Sr., noticed her gravity to electronics when she was eight years old in third grade. Nash's most recent project assignment, editorial project manager for a project by her mentor's his son, Wayne Sadberry, to name a school honoring his father. Nash led the project after Wayne Sadberry and his Team Captain, George Vaults, were stricken by Covid-19 during the Pandemic, and died of complications. Nash kept the 10-member committee and 300 petitioners working. The College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University documented the Wayne Sadberry Project to name O.W. Sadberry, Sr., Intermediate School in Bryan, Texas.
The Wayne Sadberry Project won recognition from the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. For his groundbreaking approach to public value creation and global reproducibility, Wayne Sadberry was posthumously awarded the 2023 Global Change Maker Award by the Port of Long Beach, California, and Developing Future Leaders Nonprofit, Los Angeles County USA. In addition, the project also received the Longevity Commendation from the Houston Informer Newspaper Foundation.
On the PBS television side, KAMU-TV, Nash taught weather mapping, and weather data interpretation from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) after being asked to substitute during a sudden vacancy. Plass taught Nash the structure of NOAA data, and how to transfer the data to the broadcast weather map and include weather preparedness in forecasts, techniques Nash used to train her radio announcer and television weather student, also studying meteorology.
Before Rose graduated, he and Nash produced a 12-episode syndicated series, Classical Music at Roundtop, recorded live at Roundtop Festival Institute, established in 1971 by concert pianist and Steinway artist, James Dick. Nash and Rose recorded Institute students, Yo-Yo Ma, now reputed to be the world's greatest cellist, and Young-Uck Kim, now a world acclaimed performing and recording violinist. Also in the festival series were institute instructors: Leon Fleisher, renowned classical pianist and conductor; Isadore Saslov, Baltimore Symphony Conductor; and among others, Yehuda Hanani, internationally renowned cello soloist, recording artist and University of Cincinnati music professor. Bob Rose went on to become a meteorologist at several television stations, a trajectory that led to his position, Lower Colorado River Authority Chief Meteorologist.
Nash's earliest exposure to electronics began when she was in elementary. Principal O.W. Sadberry, Sr., noticed her gravity to electronics when she was eight years old in third grade. Nash's most recent project assignment, editorial project manager for a project by her mentor's his son, Wayne Sadberry, to name a school honoring his father. Nash led the project after Wayne Sadberry and his Team Captain, George Vaults, were stricken by Covid-19 during the Pandemic, and died of complications. Nash kept the 10-member committee and 300 petitioners working. The College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University documented the Wayne Sadberry Project to name O.W. Sadberry, Sr., Intermediate School in Bryan, Texas.
The Wayne Sadberry Project won recognition from the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. For his groundbreaking approach to public value creation and global reproducibility, Wayne Sadberry was posthumously awarded the 2023 Global Change Maker Award by the Port of Long Beach, California, and Developing Future Leaders Nonprofit, Los Angeles County USA. In addition, the project also received the Longevity Commendation from the Houston Informer Newspaper Foundation.
On the PBS television side, KAMU-TV, Nash taught weather mapping, and weather data interpretation from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) after being asked to substitute during a sudden vacancy. Plass taught Nash the structure of NOAA data, and how to transfer the data to the broadcast weather map and include weather preparedness in forecasts, techniques Nash used to train her radio announcer and television weather student, also studying meteorology.
Before Rose graduated, he and Nash produced a 12-episode syndicated series, Classical Music at Roundtop, recorded live at Roundtop Festival Institute, established in 1971 by concert pianist and Steinway artist, James Dick. Nash and Rose recorded Institute students, Yo-Yo Ma, now reputed to be the world's greatest cellist, and Young-Uck Kim, now a world acclaimed performing and recording violinist. Also in the festival series were institute instructors: Leon Fleisher, renowned classical pianist and conductor; Isadore Saslov, Baltimore Symphony Conductor; and among others, Yehuda Hanani, internationally renowned cello soloist, recording artist and University of Cincinnati music professor. Bob Rose went on to become a meteorologist at several television stations, a trajectory that led to his position, Lower Colorado River Authority Chief Meteorologist.
Sunny Nash has been a journalist, teacher and project leader for many years winning awards and earning credits for newspaper, magazine and book contributions. Nash wrote Mother Amadeus and Stagecoach Mary, a widely cited research article in True West Magazine. For Ancestry Magazine, Nash wrote a western saga about Calvert, Texas, which included the notorious female outlaw, Bell Starr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. commissioned Nash to author musician biographies in the African American National Biography; and Deborah Willis commissioned Nash to publish photographs in Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840-present (W.W. Norton NY), and the Smithsonian European Tour.
Sunny Nash was commissioned by Leadership Long Beach (CA) to produce Video Tribute to Mayor Beverly O'Neill.
Text & Video by Sunny Nash from the Sunny Nash YouTube Channel:
Sunny Nash produced the "Beverly O'Neill Tribute Video," in 2008, honoring the former Long Beach Mayor for receiving the first Leadership Long Beach "Legacy in Leadership Award," and for being elected "America's Mayor" by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Interviews in the tribute with the former mayor are conducted by Peter Bostic, then president of Leadership Long Beach.
Sunny Nash was commissioned by Leadership Long Beach (CA) to produce Video Tribute to Mayor Beverly O'Neill.
Text & Video by Sunny Nash from the Sunny Nash YouTube Channel:
Sunny Nash produced the "Beverly O'Neill Tribute Video," in 2008, honoring the former Long Beach Mayor for receiving the first Leadership Long Beach "Legacy in Leadership Award," and for being elected "America's Mayor" by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Interviews in the tribute with the former mayor are conducted by Peter Bostic, then president of Leadership Long Beach.
Sunny Nash, an award-winning project leader, managing editor, publisher and producer, uses her elite academic preparation and experience in writing, editing, digital technology, production, publishing, science, engineering, business and renewable energy. Nash is a member of the Renewable Energy Institute, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Broadcast Technology Society, World Heritage Centre, Smithsonian Educational Technology Lab, Harvard Business School Online Community, American International News Service, and U.S. Press Corps.
Sunny Nash has proven and continues to prove that meticulous preparation, conscientious planning, managing risks, and not relying on luck are keys to success of any venture in life.
Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's
EXPERTISE & EXPERIENCE
Sunny Nash holds a Journalism BA, Texas A&M University; International Project Management Postgraduate Degree, London School of International Business (Regulated and Approved by Ofqual) UK; Master of Renewable Energy, European Centre of Technology, London (Regulated and Approved by The United Nations; Energy Innovations Professional Certificate, Stanford School of Engineering; Business Specializations, Harvard University; and among others, Intellectual Property Law Certificates, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva Switzerland.
Nash began her in writing and communications career in the New York Record Business as a songwriter, co-producer and studio musician. After her professional music career became less attractive to her, she began her journalism journey. Still part of the digital music scene, she uploads original songs and cover songs from her vintage catalogue to her platform regularly.
Nash became an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s, about life with her part-Comanche grandmother during the Civil Rights Movement, Nash's book is based on her column of 16 years with the Hearst newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, and the Knight-Ridder newspaper, The Eagle. Nash's book is internationally recognized by the Association of American University Presses as a Book for Understanding U.S. Race Relations; and recommended by the Miami-Dade Library System for Native American Collections.
Sunny Nash was invited by then First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush, to read from her book at the inaugural Texas Book Festival at the Texas Capitol.
Nash began her in writing and communications career in the New York Record Business as a songwriter, co-producer and studio musician. After her professional music career became less attractive to her, she began her journalism journey. Still part of the digital music scene, she uploads original songs and cover songs from her vintage catalogue to her platform regularly.
Nash became an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s, about life with her part-Comanche grandmother during the Civil Rights Movement, Nash's book is based on her column of 16 years with the Hearst newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, and the Knight-Ridder newspaper, The Eagle. Nash's book is internationally recognized by the Association of American University Presses as a Book for Understanding U.S. Race Relations; and recommended by the Miami-Dade Library System for Native American Collections.
Sunny Nash was invited by then First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush, to read from her book at the inaugural Texas Book Festival at the Texas Capitol.
Sunny Nash is an award-winning author-journalist, project leader, managing editor and publisher-producer, which require strategic communication, negotiation acumen, business planning, persuasive proposal writing, contract management and project closure.
Sunny Nash, Shine Award Winner
American Business Women's Association
American Business Women's Association
First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush, Letter to Sunny Nash
