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Entrepreneur, motivational speaker, cooking show producer and cookbook publisher -- those are the many hats Drakeel Burns wears. Her multi-faceted career also includes an acting gig with two of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Ms. Burns is the founder and president of Drakeel Enterprises, a multi-media company specializing in print, television production and motivational speaking. The business produces www.saltandpepperchefs.com., an online cooking show which celebrates diversity in cooking. Drakeel Enterprises recently published the program's first cookbook entitled Salt & Pepper's Ten Favorite Recipes.

As a motivational speaker, Ms. Burns shares her "getting a life" testimony to the masses. She also talks about surviving failure after losing three jobs before the age of 30.

Ms. Burns started her career in TV news. She spent nearly ten years in the business as a reporter, host and producer. Ms. Burns worked in newsrooms in Ohio, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, and she specialized in live, breaking news coverage at the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C. Her high profile interviews include academy-award winning actors Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, actor Keanu Reeves, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, broadcasting mogul Ted Turner, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Stedman Graham and Denise Brown, O. J. Simpson's sister-in-law.

Ms. Burns has also appeared on the big screen. Steven Spielberg cast her as a reporter in the sci-fi blockbuster Minority Report starring Tom Cruise.

The entrepreneur graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University with a journalism degree. She was named outstanding undergraduate in the university's broadcast news program. Veteran ABC News Journalist Carole Simpson selected Ms. Burns as the first Carole Simpson Radio and Television News Directors Foundation Scholarship winner.

Ms. Burns is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and currently resides in the Washington, D.C area. In her spare time, she enjoys making scrapbooks, cooking and tutoring elementary school children.