Antoine B. Craigwell graduated from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York with a double major in psychology and journalism. As a journalist, he has written for several publications. His articles have appeared in Fortune Small Business (FSB), the Villager Newspapers in Northeastern Connecticut, The Bronx Times Reporter and The Bronx Times, The Amsterdam News, and recently for The Network Journal, in New York City.

Antoine B. Craigwell, assistant editor with The Network Journal (TNJ), received two awards at the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) 30th Annual Awards held at Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library.

When writing for the weekly the Killingly Villager, Craigwell found himself the lone reporter covering all aspects of two towns, Brooklyn and Killingly, their governments, education, and social life. There he wrote an analysis of a U.S. Supreme Court decision relating to wetlands and the rights of property owners who had waterways on or passing through their land, and another examined the environmental issues surrounding a plan to build a shopping mall on land, contaminated by chromium-6 and oil waste, once occupied by a glass factory.

Craigwell also wrote a four-part series that delved into domestic violence from the perspective of the abused women, from the view of the children who end up being twice victimized, of men who are victims in heterosexual and homosexual relationships, and to providing resources to which victims could refer.

After transitioning to The Bronx Times Reporter and The Bronx Times, a community weekly newspapers, he covered the north, central and south Bronx areas, including writing about the controversial proposed new jail facility at Oak Point in the South Bronx. His coverage of the community meetings and the issues resulted in a three-part series that led to plans for the jail being indefinitely suspended.

For his coverage, he earned recognition with a first place win in the Public Affairs category of the 2008 New York Association of Black Journalists Awards. He also wrote a two-part story examining the effects of poverty based on the 2006 U.S. Census Bureau’s report of poverty in communities nationwide, which revealed that the Bronx was one of the top three poorest communities in the country, and of the efforts by NYC’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg to address the issue with an economic commission.

Craigwell then transitioned to The Network Journal, a monthly African-American small business and professional magazine. There, as the assistant editor, he both supervised the editorial department and wrote for the magazine, most notably: the May 2007 cover featuring Neil De Grasse Tyson, an African-American astrophysicist and head of the Hayden Planetarium; a profile of Dr. Carolyn Britton of the Department of Neurology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, as one of the magazine’s top Black doctors, and for which he was part of the editorial team that won second place for the submission in the healthcare category for the 2008 New York Association of Black Journalists Awards.

Prior to his career as a journalist, Craigwell was employed in administrative managerial positions in several different industries, including, religious non-profit (Catholic Charities), political non-profit (Rainbow PUSH/Wall Street Project), Internet business (EarthWeb, Inc.), private entertainment law practice (Morton Leavy, Esq., now deceased), gay advocacy (Gay Men of African Descent), music (Zomba Records, the home of Jive, Silvertone and Volcano Records), in construction (Full Spectrum Building and Development), and in communications (ComCore Strategies).

During his internship with FSB, Craigwell worked on the magazine’s annual business plan competition and interviewed those students, from universities nationwide, who had won the competition. He did an independent study, which was based on an examination of the effects of the Patriots Act against the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (part of the Bill of Rights against unlawful stop, searches and seizures), placed against the backdrop of and in the context of the case that was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court of Terry v. Ohio [392 U.S. 1 (1968)].

Craigwell’s community involvement included volunteering for food preparation in the kitchen with God’s Love We Deliver and with Literacy Partners as a tutor to adults in a pre-GED program. He is a member of the New York Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, Baruch College Alumni Association, and a director on the board of directors with responsibility for communications with the National Association of African-Americans in Human Resources, Greater New York.