only African-American Women’s National Breast Cancer Survivorship Support Group. Woodley is also an HIV counselor certified by the state of North Carolina. She addresses the topic of HIV in one of her plays, The Men in Me''. Awards and honors Emmy award for Exceptional Coverage of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 Award from Harry Chapin Foundation for Hunger and Poverty in New York National Association of Black Journalists Award Inaugural Hall of Honor inductee at alma mater Oakland Technical High School (other awardees include Marshawn Lynch, The Pointer Sisters, Rickey Henderson, and Clint Eastwood.) Emerging Artist grant from the Durham Arts Council in North Carolina References Living people 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights African-American women journalists African-American journalists American stage actresses American women dramatists and playwrights American women television journalists American women radio journalists African-American actresses African-American dramatists and playwrights African-American radio personalities Writers from Oakland, California American columnists American women columnists Emmy Award winners 21st-century American women writers San Francisco State University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century African-American writers