The Power Broker Team
Gypsy C. Gallardo, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief (reachout@powerbrokermagazine.com)
Gypsy is a Harvard-trained activist publisher whose life and career are dedicated to the advancement of the African American community. As CEO of Vision Maker Press and Vision Maker Management, Gypsy has helped develop, launch, fund and promote dozens of leading-edge organizations, coalitions and initiatives in the fields of economic development, business, media, politics and advocacy. In addition to being publisher of the Power Broker, she is publisher of the Village News magazine (covering Miami-Dade County), co-publisher and editor to several specialty publications, and a guest writer to publications that include The Weekly Challenger newspaper. Gypsy's favorite author is Dr. John Hope Franklin. Her favorite thinker is Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Her favorite revolutionary is Jesus Christ. And her favorite food, unfortunately, is chocolate. She is a proud mother to two beautiful young adults and helped to raise two "nephew-sons."
Deborah Figgs-Sanders, E-zine Editor (deborah@powerbrokermagazine.com)
Deborah is both connected and committed. Apart from being the Power Broker's Business Manager for over three years (she recently transitioned her role), she is Executive Director of the Childs Park YMCA, CEO of Personal Agenda, and co-owner of Supreme Heating & Cooling. Deborah is President of the Zeta Upsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, serves on the boards of several community-based organizations, sings in her church choir, and is happily married to Daniel Sanders, with whom she parents three handsome and accomplished young men.
Other members of the Power Broker team include: Gwendolyn Reese, Associate Editor (and a mentor of the Power Broker's publisher), G. "Pop" Lancaster, Official Photographer, Eddie Johnson, III, Lead Designer, Kimberley Webb, Production Manager, Paulette Goolsby, Project Manager, Kellis Glenn, Clearwater Correspondent, Sarah Hamm, Tarpon Springs Correspondent, and Lonnie Donaldson, Co-Founder of the Power Broker (who went home to God in 2009).