Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead is an American educator, author, radio host, speaker, and documentary filmmaker who is known as the #blackmommyactivist. She is Associate Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland.[1] In 2020, Whitehead was selected by The Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women[2]; and, by the Baltimore Sun as the Best Radio Host.[3] In 2019, Whitehead received the Collegium Visionary Award from the College of Holy Cross;[4] the Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) from the National Women's Political Caucus for her work editing and compiling #BlackGirlActivism: Exploring the Ways We Come Though the Storm,[5] a special issue of the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal (Duke University Press); the Baltimore Sun named her as one of Baltimore's 25 "Women to Watch in 2019”; and, Essence magazine included her on the 2019 “Woke 100 List,” of “black women advocating for change."[6][7] She is the host of “Today with Dr. Kaye” on radio station WEAA, which received the 2020 Chesapeake Associated Press Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary[8]; the 2019 Associated Press Award for Outstanding Talk Show and the second place Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary.[9][10] Whitehead is an Opinion Editorial columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American.[11]

Biography

Whitehead received her B.A. from Lincoln University; her M.A. in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame; her graduate degree in Advanced Documentary and Narrative Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy;[12] and her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[13][14]

Whitehead was a middle school teacher in Baltimore City. She was also a documentary filmmaker with Metro TV, a PBS-affiliate and a senior producer for Music Television Networks (MTV). In 2001, she directed and produced The Twin Towers: A History which was nominated for a New York Emmy Award.[15]

Whitehead serves as the National Secretary for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)[16] and the National Secretary for the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).[17]

Awards

In 2016, Whitehead received the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies’ “Distinguished Alumni” Award from the University of Notre Dame.[18][19] In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Progressive National Baptist Convention. In 2013, she received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship from Loyola University Maryland.[20]

Writing

Whitehead is a curriculum writer who created and compiled the crowd-sourced Trump Syllabus K12 curriculum: Lesson Plans for Teaching During this New Age of Resistance.[21]

Whitehead is the author of four books including Letters for My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America[22] and Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis[23] which was reviewed in Journal of American History.[24] A documentary film The Women of Philadelphia was made about the book [25] and it received both the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians[26] and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.

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References
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  2. "The Daily Record honors Loyola faculty member as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women - Newsroom - Loyola University Maryland". www.loyola.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  3. "Winners of The Baltimore Sun's Best 2020 Readers' Choice Contest To Be Announced in May". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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  6. staff, Baltimore Sun. "The Baltimore Sun's 25 Women to Watch in 2019". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  7. "The 2019 Woke 100". Essence. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  8. "Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association". Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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  15. Oei, Lily; Oei, Lily (2003-02-18). "WNBC tops N.Y. Emmy noms". Variety. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  16. "ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | Leadership". 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  17. "NWSA". www.nwsa.org. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  18. Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. "Karsonya (Kaye) - Whitehead - 1993 // Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies // University of Notre Dame". Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  19. 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation featuring Karsonya Wise Whitehead, retrieved 2019-11-16
  20. "2006 State Winners | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". www.gilderlehrman.org. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  21. Valenzuela, Angela (2016-12-15). "Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: Trump Syllabus K12: Lesson Plans for Teaching During the New Age of Resistance (#TrumpSyllabusK12)". Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  22. "Karsonya Wise Whitehead: Letters to My Black Sons | The Ivy Bookshop". www.theivybookshop.com. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
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  24. Ball, E. L. (2015-06-01). "Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis". Journal of American History. 102 (1): 251–252. doi:10.1093/jahist/jav182. ISSN 0021-8723.
  25. "Notes From a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilee Frances Davis". catto.ushistory.org. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  26. "Darlene Clark Hine Award Winners | OAH". www.oah.org. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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