Tiffani Knowles-Senatus
Professor | Journalist | Speaker
ABOUT TIFFANI KNOWLES
TIFFANI KNOWLES, a native of Miami, Florida, is a journalist and a professor of communication at Barry University. She began her career in journalism in 2000 with The Miami Herald. As a print journalist, she covered metro news, education, the arts, special interest, and news in the city of Miami Lakes. It was there that she developed her passion for accuracy and integrity while under the tutelage of Pulitzer-prize winning journalists.
Since then, she has worked as a coordinating producer for a youth television show, a radio personality and station manager, a voiceover artist for clients like Merriam-Webster, CROCS, CNN and Discovery Channel and a college professor.
In 2009, she founded an online news source for the urban twentysomething, NEWD Magazine. She is also a contributing writer for The Miami Times, South Florida’s African American weekly newspaper.
She holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast communication from Barry University in Miami and a master's degree in Arts and Humanities Education from New York University. She completed a journalism intensive through American University’s Washington Semester program in 2003 and an education and social reform program through NYU’s Study Abroad course in South Africa in 2005.
Using her entrepreneurial savvy, in 2015, she and her brother Zachary co-founded Millennial Solutions, LLC, the parent company of Global Business Lending, a firm that provides working capital for small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and Canada.
Her career and entrepreneurial endeavors continue to span multiple industries. After living in New York City for 12 years and working as part of the communication studies faculty at The City University of New York, Tiffani has resettled in her native South Florida.
ABOUT LIVINGSTONE KNOWLES
LIVINGSTONE KNOWLES, Tiffani's father and co-author, is a native of Nassau, Bahamas born in 1947. He worked in the travel industry for more than 46 years, starting with the airlines in his native Bahamas. He migrated to the United States in 1968 and settled in Miami, Florida.
From 1974 until he retired in 2011, he was employed with Greyhound Lines in the Miami, Florida region in various capacities from ticket agent to bus station manager then North Miami franchisee.
Miami is the epicenter of immigration in the state of Florida and Greyhound buses are the preferred mode of transportation for people on the lower economic scale. As a franchisee of the North Miami station, he helped thousands of down-on-their luck travelers passing through his station and dozens of immigrants to receive gainful employment at his location.
Additionally, for more than thirty years, he was a member of the Open Bible Church in Miami Fl., a primarily West Indian congregation, serving as a leader in their public relations, outreach and missions departments.
These two avenues afforded him a unique insight into the life and condition of the prototypical third-world immigrant. He has a singular perspective into the world of that immigrant – which some are declaring to be murderers, rapists and thieves.
When he retired in 2011, he began writing about his perspectives on life, social injustice and faith in his daughter Tiffani’s publication NEWD Magazine in a column called, “Just Thinking.”
Livingstone and his wife Gloria presently reside in Central Florida.