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Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is an associate professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and the award-winning author of Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis; a featured Public Commentator for WYPR and Op-Ed columnist for the Baltimore Sun; a K-12 master teacher in African American History; an award-winning curriculum writer and lesson plan developer; an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher; and, a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker.
Justina Pollard is the Producer of the #1 rated national talk show on WEAA 88.9 FM, “Today with Dr. Kaye” which airs weekdays from 3 – 5 pm. She was born and raised in Baltimore. She began her career at WBAL-TV 11 as an intern and ended her career as Director of Programming & Public Affairs. She contributed to the success of numerous community initiatives with sponsorship and local programming in an effort to raise thousands of dollars for the campaigns. She helped to raise more than $400,000 by holding a telethon to benefit the American Red Cross’s Hurricane Harvey relief fund to help the victims of Texas, she produced Dr. Oz’s Be Well Health Presentation in 2016 for more than 3,000 people at the Mall in Columbia. She also took her news teams in the trenches of the community to lend a hand to help feed the homeless, help build a playground at St. Vincent de Paul’s Homeless Shelter in West Baltimore, collect toys for children in Puerto Rico and in East Baltimore during Christmas, her team walked for O.J. Brigance’s run/walk to support survivors of ALS, exercised with children at Baltimore City Public Schools and summer camps in an effort to decrease juvenile health issues with her Healthy Kids campaign, bicycle for Susan G. Komen, support the arts at Artscape, unpack more than 7,000 tons of healthy food from the Maryland Food Bank to distribute at Fulton Baptist Church for residents on North and Pennsylvania Avenues and the list continues. She also hired interns and mentored hundreds of high school and college students in careers in broadcasting.