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Wayne Sadberry posthumously 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.
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 online and print publishing, 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 publication of Nash's photographs for Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840-present (W.W. Norton NY 2000), and the Smithsonian International Tour.
Sunny Nash was commissioned by Leadership Long Beach (CA) to produce Video Tribute to Mayor Beverly O'Neill. Beverly O'Neill in 2008 received the first Leadership Long Beach "Legacy in Leadership Award," 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
Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's
EXPERTISE & EXPERIENCE
Bill Watkins, owner and station manager of WTAW-AM Country Radio, 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 Book Festival. 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.
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.
Nash began her writing and communications career in the New York Record industry. She co-wrote lyrics, laid vocal tracks, including overdubbing background harmonies, co-produced and, as a studio musician, created music tracks. Still part of the digital music scene, she uploads original songs and cover songs from her vintage catalogue to her platform regularly. After her professional music career became less attractive to her, she became a professional voice talent on radio commercials to finance her journalism studies in college.
Nash began her writing and communications career in the New York Record industry. She co-wrote lyrics, laid vocal tracks, including overdubbing background harmonies, co-produced and, as a studio musician, created music tracks. Still part of the digital music scene, she uploads original songs and cover songs from her vintage catalogue to her platform regularly. After her professional music career became less attractive to her, she became a professional voice talent on radio commercials to finance her journalism studies in college.
Sunny Nash, Shine Award Winner
American Business Women's Association
American Business Women's Association
Then First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush, Letter to Sunny Nash
Nash became an award-winning journalist and 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 for Native American Collections by the Miami-Dade County Library System .
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's earliest exposure to electronics began when she was in elementary school. Principal O.W. Sadberry, Sr., noticed her gravity toward 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 both died of complications. Nash kept the 10-member committee and 300 petitioners working on the mission. 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.
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. While at WTAW, Nash covered Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic at 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. As a broadcast instructor, Nash taught live and studio audio production, splice editing, remote setup, electronics and radio announcing to KAMU-FM students. She created classical music series, Collector's Choice, hosted by world-renown physicist and climate change pioneer, Dr. Gilbert Plass, Chair of the Physics Dept. at Texas A&M University.
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 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. 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. 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. 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, risk management, contingency planning, and not relying on luck are the keys to success of any venture in life.
Sunny Nash & Bill Watkins
53-Year Friendship and Collaboration (1973-2026)
53-Year Friendship and Collaboration (1973-2026)