Sue wants every person to understand that, despite the odds against them, they should never give up on their dreams. Sulonda „Sue-Ham“ Hammond’s work has been featured on Bravo TV’s Thicker Than Water, the Steve Harvey Show; The Steve Harvey Show; BET; Atlanta LIVE; IHeartRadio; the Marvin Winans Radio Show; and other national, regional, and local outlets. In addition, Sue-Ham has the distinction of being the first playwright to have two scripts accepted into the Readers Theatre for the 2016 Atlanta Black Theatre Festival.
In 2017, she was named the next great talent by Hollywood director and writer, David E. Talbert and she won Best Casting Director for a production at the Urban Playwrights United (UPU) Fest. Her production, The Gift, was produced at the Meta Theatre in Los Angeles and is a finalist for the 2018 screenplay competition at the Twister Alley Film Festival in Oklahoma. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
