Nationwide — Dontaye Carter has partnered together with his five-year-old daughter, Kyleigh, to heart Black fatherhood and a robust Black household with their new youngsters’s guide, My Daddy and Me.
Because the Founder and Lead Communication Strategist of Carter Media Group (CMG), Dontaye is a pioneer on the earth of Public Relations and Communications from his distinctive work in elevating the voices of the households of the survivors of R. Kelly to elevating the voices of the household of Ahmaud Arbery. In actual fact, his ardour, expertise, and outcomes have garnered worldwide consideration, together with three prestigious awards from the twenty sixth Annual Communicators Awards.
Whereas Dontaye has been a pioneer in public relations (PR), politics, and social justice, his daughter, Kyleigh, has been proper by his facet. On the age of two, her daycare was closed, like many companies, establishments, and far of the world as a result of pandemic in 2020. Nonetheless, the pandemic couldn’t cease the acts of racial injustice. When the Atlanta NAACP referred to as Dontaye’s agency to assist increase consciousness about Ahmaud Arbery’s case, the duo responded. Kyleigh traveled together with her father a lot that many individuals ultimately requested, “When are you going to inform this story, Dontaye?”
He feedback, “There’s been no title that I’m prouder to put on than Dad. Every part that I do comes from a need to depart this world higher for my daughter than what I inherited. Nonetheless, I’m not the one Black father preventing to guard my household and supply for them. As Kyleigh and I sat down to write down this guide and he or she informed me what she noticed in me; it was the identical factor I noticed in each Black father I encounter day after day. We frequently really feel unseen, unheard, and devalued, however this is a chance so as to add hope, love, and energy to a story that’s typically solely seen by the lens of hip-hop and gang life. My daughter informed me that I used to be her hero. And I do know for a truth now we have tens of millions of Black fathers who’re seen as heroes, and that’s what this guide is about celebrating.”
Dontaye’s purchasers have been featured in Time Journal, New York Occasions, BBC, Lifetime, Good Morning America, and lots of different publications and media retailers.
He launched his agency in 2017 and as soon as led the PR division within the Fulton County DA’s workplace. For ten years earlier than the DA’s Workplace, he labored in tv information as an Government Producer, Anchor, and Reporter throughout the Southeast and Midwest. His profession consists of working in Atlanta at CBS46 and 11Alive, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at FOX23, and in Tallahassee, Florida, at WCTV.
When Kyleigh isn’t tagging together with Daddy, she’s working diligently to arrange playdates. When Dontaye isn’t carrying his CMG hat, he’s serving because the Communications Chair for the Georgia NAACP, on the Board of Administrators of the PTO at Kyleigh’s faculty, and on the Board of Administrators of CURE Childhood Most cancers.
The Carter’s new guide, My Daddy and Me, might be launched on July twenty eighth.
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For press inquiries, contact Carter Media Group at (678) 551-1864 or Dontaye@CarterMedia.Web
