"A man with no imagination, has no wings." - Muhammad Ali Ms. May is a native Chicagoan born and raised on Chicago’s south side. She is a product of the Chicago Public Schools where she graduated from Whitney M. Young High School, the same high school as First Lady Michelle Obama. She earned her BBA in Finance from Howard University and then went on to graduate with a joint JD/MBA degree from the University of Iowa College of Law and the University of Iowa School of Management in 2002. Ms. May began her legal career as a corporate associate at the law firm of Wildman Harrold Allen and Dixon now known as Edwards Wildman. She left the firm to relocate to Los Angeles, CA to pursue her dream to be an entertainment lawyer and a producer. She has worked as a Business Representative and Advisor in Entertainment Contracts at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) headquarters in Los Angeles, CA where she was responsible for clearing film and television productions, reviewing chain of title and advising business representatives in the theatrical and television departments on various production matters. Ms. May left SAG to assume the post of Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Codeblack Entertainment where she was the sole lawyer responsible for structuring, drafting and negotiating talent, distribution, production and licensing deals as well as supervising outside counsel. Ms. May is the founder and CEO of Zuri Entertainment where she provides business and legal affairs consulting and producer services to talent, filmmakers, financiers and nonprofit organizations. Ms. May is also a film producer. She is currently producing a documentary film, Jewels of Change: Lady Lawyers Impacting the World, Executive Produced by Hill Harper and she is associate producer of the scripted webseries, Milk + Honey, Executive Produced by Idris Elba. She serves on the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee, the Diamond in the Raw Stuntwomen’s Foundation Board of Directors, the Executive Board of the Howard University Alumni Association of Greater Los Angeles and she is the co-founder of Collegewood, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to bridge the gap between college students and opportunities in all facets of the entertainment industry by providing them with programming, resources and information. She is a past co-chair of the Langston Bar Association's Entertainment Committee and previously served on the Manifest Your Destiny Foundation Board of Directors. In August of 2011, Ms. May was nominated as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers by the National Bar Association and IMPACT. She also received the National Bar Association and IMPACT's Excellence in Innovation Award. She enjoys traveling the country and abroad, playing tennis and is a fashion enthusiast. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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