Rita Booker Parson is the retired district manager of Public Relations for Tarrant County College where she was also the former coordinator of Public Information. Hailing from Tuskegee, AL, she attended South Oak Cliff High School and then studied journalism at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M Commerce) and North Texas State University, now University of North Texas, Class of 1985 — receiving BA and MA degrees in Journalism, respectively. An award-winning PR guru, Rita is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc, and she has been a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators (now Journalists.
