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 the founding director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, a Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, and the host of Today With Dr. Kaye on WEAA. In 2022, Dr. Kaye received the Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence from Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and Communication (SGJC) for ''Outstanding Reporting on the Impact Racial Reckoning Has Had in Helping to Close Social/Racial Wealth Gap for Black People in America''; was selected by the Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women and was highlighted by Black Girls Vote Ladies and Politics Spotlight. As one of only a handful of Black women who solo host a daily drive-time afternoon radio shows, Dr. Kaye's radio show has received numerous awards, most recently the show won both the 2022 Chesapeake Associated Press Award for Best Talk Show and Best in Show and won Second Place for Best Editorial or Commentary.

In 2020, the radio show received Chesapeake Associated Press Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary and in 2019, it received the Cheapeake Associated Press Award for Outstanding Talk Show and the second place Award for Outstanding Editorial or Commentary. Whitehead is also an Opinion Editorial columnist for the ''Baltimore Afro-American''. Provided by Wikipedia