The owner of Empire of Dreams, LLC, April Dishon Barker is a graduate of Paul Quinn College and an author-coach who has helped publish over 40 books in the past decade. She’s a writer, speaker, trainer and leader. April provides training and consulting for non-profit organizations and small businesses. She has worked at Uplift Education as an early childhood educator and office manager; an associate minister for preschool/special needs at Trinity Church; Library specialist at UNT-Dallas and Paul Quinn College; and a compliance specialist at Citicards. This writer/editor/publisher is an alumni of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators (now journalists) Urban Journalism Workshop and a former student member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
