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Crossley is a graduate of class of 1973, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Pine Manor College, and a Cambridge College Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She received a Nieman Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Institute of Politics at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In March 2013 she began hosting a new radio program entitled "Under the Radar with Callie Crossley" and continues to contribute to WGBH Radio"s "Boston Public Radio" where various commentators talk with guests about local and national politics, public affairs, arts, and culture. From December 2010 through June 2012, she was the host of "The Callie Crossley Show", a one-hour daily talk show on WGBH-FM, 89.7. Past guests on "The Callie Crossley Show" include filmmaker Errol Morris, historian Howard Zinn, authors Junot Diaz, Frank Bruni, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, Isabel Wilkerson, David Remnick, lawyer/author Charles Ogletree, actors Rachel Dratch, Leonard Nimoy, Anna Deavere Smith, and Wayne Brady, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and many more.
A television and radio commentator, moderator and public speaker, Crossley lectures on the collision of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender and media.
She is a panelist on WGBH-television"s "Beat the Press", and a frequent host of WGBH-television"s Basic Black. Crossley is a regular contributor on Public Radio International"s The Takeaway (radio), and has guest hosted National Public Radio"s Tell Maine More with Michel Martin, for which she also contributes commentary about wine.
She is an occasional commentator on Cable News Network"s "Reliable Sources", and appears regularly on Fox Morning News WXFT-television Callie Crossley, originally from Memphis,Tennessee, is a Barbecue connoisseur with a southern heritage. In addition to hosting her radio program, Crossley is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Visiting Lecturer, guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media, politics, and the intersection of race, gender and media.
She is a featured speaker on Forum Network, a public media service of Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and Corporation for Public Broadcasting providing a free online video lecture series featuring the world"s leading scientists, educators, artists and authors Forum Network.
Crossley also serves as a judge for several major journalism awardsincluding the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism – and she writes the blog "The Crushed Grape Report." She sits on several Boston based Boards including the Boston Museum, the Ford Hall Forum, Cambridge Reads, and the Boston Book Festival.
Crossley produced two of the six hours in the 1987 television documentary series Eyes on the Prize, Show Four--"Number Easy Walk" and Show 6--"Bridge to Freedom", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1988 during the 60th Academy Crossley received the 2013 Alumnae Achievement Award from Wellesley College, the highest honor given to alumnae for excellence and distinction in their fields of endeavor and has been presented annually since 1970. Crossley is recognized as a "history maker" in the nation"s largest African American video oral history collection.
