I am Tia Ross,

Featuring my clients is among my favorite ways to celebrate them, their endeavors, and their accomplishments. This particular client, Southern Poverty Law Center, publishes a magazine dedicated to teaching tolerance, and I’m thrilled to share the latest issue on the right to vote, the right to an education, and the right to life and liberation.

Apparently, written word editors historically don’t ‘retreat’… We’re changing that. Next year we’re hosting the first wordsmiths’ retreat for editors. We’re headed to a five-star beachfront all-inclusive luxury resort and spa with gorgeous ocean view rooms, exciting nightlife, and adventure-filled excursions. The Editors’ Retreat is a four-day, three-night retreat at the Grand Hyatt Playa del

Outside the Book Tia discusses the editing profession, diversity, networking, critical skills, tools, and succeeding as an agency business owner in interview with Outside the Book, an organization that focuses on movers among editors of color. Read More

Nothing inspires creative energy and gets my heart racing in books and movies like speculative and science fiction coupled with some impeccably choreographed action. I love sci-fi and fantasy. In fact, my firm may be the only editors in our network that edits this genre. On the rare occasion that I read fiction for pleasure,

I’ve intensely admired modern-day civil rights leader Rashad Robinson and his team of unrelenting activists at Color Of Change for most of the last decade. I’ve been a member of their action list for longer than I can remember and have signed countless campaigns to expand power for Black people, right wrongs, and effectuate much-needed change in the ongoing

Creating and attending events with others can create bonds that can either grow into something palpable and meaningful over time or they can wither and die. And when you are an event host, whether you’re asking people to travel around the States or the world with you, one of the most important components I’ve learned