Monica Haslip

CTL-E-5231 · Person · businessperson · 1965–present

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Monica Haslip is a Chicago arts administrator, founder and executive director of Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965, she graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 1983, studied at Atlanta College of Art, and worked in the photography department of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago before becoming, in 1989, a senior marketing manager at Black Entertainment Television. In 1994 she founded Little Black Pearl, building it from a home-based after-school program into a 40,000-square-foot Bronzeville institution and an arts academy. The Obama White House named her a Champion of Change for youth violence prevention, and The HistoryMakers recorded her biography; she also works nationally as a racial-healing facilitator and trainer.

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-15 (packet branch-two) — BRANCH-SURFACED OPTIONAL: not one of the five the founder named; surfaced because Little Black Pearl's founder edge requires her. Founder may merge 5 or 6.

Referenced by

• Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center — founded by → this record

Sources

• The HistoryMakers — Monica Haslip biography (b. 1965 Birmingham; Johnson Publishing; BET 1989; founded LBP 1994) (primary source)
• Aspen Institute, Aspen Ideas — Monica Haslip speaker biography (Champion of Change; racial-healing practice)

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