ACCOLADES

SPECIAL MEDIA FEATURES

Featured Speaker, Leon County Today, Tallahassee

2021

Guest speaker on WFSU Radio Show-FSU

2016

Guest speaker on the Jazmyne Show-FAMU

2015

WMBB News Feature, Survivor’s Story, DCF Conference, Pensacola

2012

WCTV Special News Feature, Christmas: Governor Crist was interviewed for the program

2008

WCTV “Live at Five” Featured Guest

2005

WCTV Feature speaking role for "Girls Talk" for Gadsden County High Schools

2005

PROESSIONAL APPEARANCES


• Featured speaker- Leon County Today with Sheriff McNeil, Tallahassee (2021)
• Saint John Vianney College Seminary Miami (2020) Speaker
• Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Training, The Impact of Intergenerational Poverty and Trauma on Criminal Behavior (2019)
• Florida Prison Ministries “Trauma Among the Incarcerated” Conference, Featured Speaker, Tallahassee (2018)
• ASHE Town Hall on College Attainment for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls of Color, Panelist, Tampa, Florida (2018)
• Lake Minneola High School, Keynote Speaker, Lake Mary (2018)
• East Ridge High School, Keynote Speaker, Lake Mary (2018)
• Take Stock in Children Event, Keynote Speaker, Lake Mary (2018)
• FAMU Diversion Program, Keynote Speaker, Tallahassee (2018)
• Ready For Work Re-Entry Symposium, Panelist, Tallahassee (2018, 2019)
• NACo Forum on Health and Justice, Keynote Speaker, Memphis, Tennessee (2018)
• Take Stock In Children Fellows Ceremony, Keynote Speaker, Tallahassee (2018)
• Trained FAMU Mental Health Counselors on substance abuse recovery and addiction (May 2015-September 2017)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Leadership Training (2013, 2015, 2016), Tallahassee
• Trauma Informed Care Conference, Featured Speaker (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) Tallahassee; (2012), Panama City
• Federal Bureau of Prisons-Drug Graduation Ceremony , Keynote Speaker (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), Tallahassee
• 2011 Florida Peer Consumer Conference, Featured Speaker (2011), Altamonte Springs
• Substance Abuse workshop, Department of Juvenile Justice Facilities (2011), Orlando
• Substance Abuse workshop, PAR (2011), St. Petersburg
• Substance Abuse Youth workshops, Front Porch Organization, 16 sessions (2011), St. Petersburg
• Substance Abuse workshop, DACCO (2011), Tampa
• Substance Abuse workshop, BARC (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Fort Lauderdale
• Substance Abuse workshop , Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center (2011), Fort Lauderdale
• Substance Abuse workshop, Gadsden Correctional for Women (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), Quincy
• Substance Abuse workshop, Sister In Sobriety Residential Program (2011, 2012, 2013), Woodville
• Volusia County Schools Motivational Training-Red Ribbon Week (2010), Daytona Beach
• Gadsden Correctional Facility for Women-Leadership Training (2010), Gadsden County
• Are You Sleeping? Man Up to Keep Our Sisters Safe Youth Conference (2010), Tallahassee
• HIV/AIDS Awareness Seminar- I've Got To Be Me" (2010), Winter Haven
• Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Detention Centers (2010), Broward, Dade, Hillsborough, Pinellas Counties
• Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Facility-Wings of Life, Speaker (2010), Miami
• Department of Juvenile Justice Conference (Leadership Training) Featured Speaker (2009, 2010), Tampa
• Front Porch Youth Summit, Keynote Speaker (2009, 2010), Orlando


Awards, Accolades, Credentials

  • Featured article in the Tallahassee Democrat-2020 https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/family/2020/12/11/freda-king-shares-her-path 
  • 2019 Community Partner of the Year by the Refuge House-Domestic Violence Awareness
  • Community Partner Award recipient Leon/Wakulla/Gadsden County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team (2017)
  • JLUSA Fellow (2016-2017)
  • 50 Alums for 50 years-Honoree (March 2016)
  • Tallahassee Community College Alumni & Friends Hall of Fame Inductee (2016)
  • Participate on a fatality review board (2015-Present)
  • LeRoy Collins Distinguished Alumni Award-Against the Odds (2013)
  • Organized and Facilitated Substance Abuse works for a Youth Summer Program (2011)
  • "Circle of Remembrance," Brick Award Honoree, Tallahassee Community College Alumni Association (2005)
  • Organized and facilitated GED workshops in St. Petersburg, Florida (2005)
  • Student of the Year, Tallahassee Community College (2004)
  • President, Returning Adult Student Organization, Tallahassee Community College (2004-2007)
  • Women's History Month Honoree, Tallahassee Community College (2003)
  • Florida Department of Education "Success Story" Recipient (2003) 

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