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Los Angeles native, Mignette Patrick Dorsey moved to Houston, Texas, and graduated cum laude with an English degree from the University of Houston. She began her journalism career as a staff reporter for Houston Community Newspapers and later the Houston Post where she won the Aldo and Atrium awards for fashion feature stories. After the demise of the Post, she worked freelance and on contract for the Houston Chronicle, later serving as an associate editor for a local magazine. She left to enter the world of public relations as a City of Houston spokesperson, followed by a career as a high school journalism and developmental reading educator. Currently, she is an English graduate student at the University of Houston, teaches writing classes at a Houston-area community college, and is the author of Speak Truth to Power, The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer.