Community Outreach Manager,
BookmarksNC

At Bookmarks, a bookstore and literary non-profit in Winston-Salem, Damarius manages Book with Purpose, an annual community read and civic engagement initiative that includes book donations and community programming focused on a single theme.

In 2024, Book with Purpose focused on the history of voter suppression in the United States with Dr. Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote. Nearly 5,000 copies of the book were distributed to communities across the Triad. Dr. Anderson delivered the festival keynote at Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors, the largest literary festival in the Carolinas.

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