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Over the years, she has worked with or booked for various organizations such luminaries as Dr. Maya Angelou, Amiri & Amina Baraka, Dr. Tony Brown, Dr. Calvin Butts, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, Dr. Bernice King, Yolanda King, Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, Dr. Alvin Poussant, Randall Robinson, Congressman William Grey; numerous jazz musicians, among them the late jazz violinist Noel Pointer, the late singer Abbey Lincoln, Chico Mendoza; singers Cissy and Whitney Houston, and countless others.

Ms. Bateman has served on many arts and tourism grant panels over the years on the local, county and state levels and has fought intently for fair and equitable distribution of funds for under-funded organizations serving under-served communities.