Janice Robinson-Celeste, MBA
Founder & Publisher
Janice Robinson-Celeste is an early childhood specialist, publisher and speaker, and the founder of Successful Black Parenting, the first national magazine for Black parents.
She holds a degree in early childhood education and an MBA. She developed School Age Child Care programs across Philadelphia for the Parents Union for Public Schools and ran a multi-million dollar YMCA as Executive Branch Director, overseeing its NAEYC-accredited child care program and summer camp.
As Early Childhood Specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Child Guidance Center, she guided parents facing substance use challenges in their children's development. She has taught from preschool through university.
She is a contributing writer for HuffPost and a Public Voice Fellow of the National Black Child Development Institute, which names her a featured speaker at Disney's National Parenting Conference and the National Black Child Development Conference. She founded the National Black Parenting Conference and hosts BACKtalk.
She is the author of Pride & Joy (Simon & Schuster), Making A Supermodel, and the award-winning children's book Miles' Stuffy Nose.
Janice speaks and trains virtually for Head Start programs, early childhood staff, school districts and conferences nationwide.
Janice Robinson-Celeste, MBA
Founder & Publisher
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The mission of successful black parenting is to help families to thrive and not just survive in order to raise children to be successful citizens while creating POSITIVE social impact IN the african american community.
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Successful Black Parenting, the first national magazine for Black parents, was established in 1993 as a print publication by founders Janice Robinson-Celeste, MBA, formerly Janice Robinson-Lopez, and Marta Sanchez, Ph.D., and was brought back in 2017 as an online format.
Janice, an early childhood specialist, and Marta, a caseworker, worked together at the Child Guidance Center, a division of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where they assisted parents and their children. Offering information published in mainstream parenting magazines, their parents said to them, “We don’t parent like this.”
In addition, the lack of minority faces in parenting magazines was another issue, which led them to start Successful Black Parenting magazine. They funded the publication with loans and credit cards. The magazine won many prestigious awards and was well received by the community, medical personnel, those working with urban families, and well-established advertisers. They soon realized they had just enough seed money to fail, only about $30k, and needed much more but didn’t have the connections to make it happen. They closed the magazine in 1998.
“Realizing that if we had the resources available today, back in 1995, we would have still been in business,” said Janice Robinson-Celeste. “Marta and I lamented over the loss of the magazine every single time we spoke to one another even 18 years after it closed. It was our biggest regret.” That’s when they decided to bite the bullet and relaunch the magazine digitally. “This is what makes me happy, producing this publication,” said Janice. “Hopefully the community will support it again and let everyone know that we’re back!”
Successful Black Parenting Magazine is rooted in the experiences of Black families and welcomes anyone who values culturally informed parenting.
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"This is what makes me happy, producing this publication," said Janice Robinson-Celeste, one of the Founders and Publisher of Successful Black Parenting magazine.
