Charlene S. Bowden has always been interested in the literary and performing arts. It started in high school serving on the year book staff her junior and senior year. During this time, she also discovered she enjoyed writing short stories. It’s no surprise that later on in life she would have published work.

 

A lover of the performing arts, Charlene enjoys attending live performances in music, dance and theatre. Again it was of no surprise that, after assisting blues artist Big Robert T market and promote his DVD, that she would begin providing artist management services, which led to the formation of CSB Management Group.

 

Her academic background includes business school, where she majored in accounting, and a degree in Psychology. A combination of her formal education and experience made her realize how much she yearned to understand people and celebrate them wherever they are on life’s journey.

 

In December of 2007, Charlene enlarged the scope of services for CSB Management Group to include co-producing events. Her first event was with Hilda Willis under the brand of Living Your Art; Hope for the Holidays (a fundraiser for the Performing Arts Program for Youth, originally founded by Jane Fonda). Over the next several years, she continued to work with Living Your Art on the following productions: the Atlanta Premiere of "Mad At Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth", the Ossie Davis Endowment for Education Launch in Atlanta, "The Way Out" in Santa Monica, CA, "Open Door: A Live Listening Performance with India.Aire" in Atlanta and Los Angeles and "Breathe: The Nicole Kelly Story" in Atlanta and New York.

 

Later she was offered a platform by Aubry Padmore, Executive Director/Program Manager of caribvoiceradio.org, to host and produce an internet based radio show giving CSB’s artists an opportunity to have their music in regular rotation on the radio. As a result the It’s Just Us Radio Show began broadcasting in June 2008 and became a part of the Carib Voice Radio Station family. This also reconnected Charlene to her earlier passion of writing.

 

Charlene served as a contributing writer for several publications. Published articles include but are not limited to:  Atlanta Pitch Summit: To Have Access and To Get Heard! and Queen of Soca (In the Zone online magazine); The Bahamas Consulate General Atlanta Hosts The 38th Anniversary of Independence of The Bahamas (bahamasweekly.com); How Starting a Small Business Can Help After College: Steps to starting a small business and how it can help after college (The Collegian - Georgia Perimeter College); It’s Time To Whoop Ash! And General Mills: The 2010 Feeding Dreams Grand Finale and Gospel Suite (aspemagazine.com); and her first piece of poetry, "Hands"  (The Creative License, a literary magazine of Georgia Perimeter College).

  

Charlene Bowden: executive producer and host of the It’s Just Us Radio Show and Talk Show, owner of CSB Management Group and It’s Just Us Productions, writer, mother and grandmother, philanthropist and volunteer for some of her favorite causes.