Haizlip was born in
Stratford, Connecticut and grew up in
Ansonia, Connecticut. She graduated from
Wellesley College, taught sociology at
Tufts University and studied Urban Planning at the
Harvard University School of Design. Haizlip was the first woman to manage a CBS television affiliate,
WBNB-TV in
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. From there she went to
WNET TV, Channel 13 in
New York City and became one of its corporate officers. Haizlip moved to
Los Angeles, California in 1989 to become the National Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the
American Film Institute, an organization which advocated and distributed funding for more than 139 film archives around the country. Haizlip left the Preservation Center to begin writing her book,
The Sweeter the Juice. In 2000, she was the first African-American to be appointed president of the
Ebell Society of Los Angeles. She was again appointed president in 2010. Haizlip married Harold C. Haizlip in 1959 and the couple had two daughters. ==Books==