USTA CEO Katrina Adams To Receive NAMIC’s Mickey Leland Award

By R. Thomas Umstead
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications has named United States Tennis Association (USTA) chairman of the board, CEO and president Katrina Adams as its Mickey Leland Humanitarian Achievement Award Recipient.

Adams, the first African-American and youngest person to serve as CEO of the sports organization, will receive the award during the 31stAnnual NAMIC Conference Sept. 27 in New York, according to the diversity organization.

Currently in her second two-year term as the USTA’s chairman of the board, CEO and president, Adams also serves as chairman of the US Open, which this year saw four Americans - Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens, CoCo Vandeweghe and Venus Williams - in the women’s semi-finals for the first time since 1985. Stephens went on to claim her first major title as the winner of the 2017 US Open. 

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R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.