Epicurean in the Spotlight
Dr. Plowden is a retired media specialist from the Atlanta Public
Schools, where she worked at Crawford W. Long Middle School for
twenty-four of her thirty years with the system. From 1998 to her
retirement she served as co-chair of the System wide Student Media
Festival.
Dr. Plowden has been an author for over twenty five years.
Her five books are: Famous Firsts of Black Women, Olympic Black Women ,
the NAACP: A Historical Perspective of the Georgia State Conference,
Mrs. Draw's Homeroom Students, and Accomplished Women of Color. Also she
has written and directed four plays: The Birthday of Georgia (Whitefoord
Elementary), The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Crawford W. Long
Middle School), Unsung African American Heroes (Christian Fellowship
Baptist Church), "Look Where We've Come From" was written to capture the
history of the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc. and CFBC's Ark - was written in celebration of the 25th Anniversary
of Christian Fellowship Baptist Church.
Dr. Plowden has served on
the Executive Committees of the following organizations: the Georgia
State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), the Atlanta Branch NAACP, the Atlanta Urban
League, and the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter . She was the first State
Coordinator of the Academic, Cultural, Technological, Scientific
Olympics (ACT-SO) Program for the Georgia State NAACP. Also, for twenty
years she has served as the chair of the Atlanta Branch NAACP's ACT-SO
Program.
Dr. Plowden is a member of many organizations, to name a
few: second vice president of the Atlanta Societa Docta, Inc., past
secretary for the Atlanta Association of Educators (AAE), past president
of the Atlanta Urban League Guild, past treasurer and parliamentarian of
the Atlanta Epicureans, a Life Member of the NAACP, a former member of
the Atlanta Jack and Jill, and a Golden Life member of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc. She has also served as a volunteer for the King Center
(Salute to Greatness Dinner) and is a volunteer for the United Negro
Colored Fund (Mayor's Masked Ball). She is a charter member of the
Greater Atlanta Section of the National Council of Negro Women (NCMW)
and served as a delegate to the 2018's national convention in
Washington, D.C..
Dr. Plowden is married to Nathaniel Plowden and
they have one daughter, Natalie Tyler Martin (Clinton), and one
granddaughter, Amia Camille Tyler-Martin.