Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College will host a CIC Visiting Fellow the week of Jan. 18. The media commentator and public speaker will share her story with The Woods community.
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Callie Crossley, who currently hosts “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley” in Boston, will be on campus from Jan. 18 through 20. She will publicly speak and be a guest in classrooms during her time. Along with her show, her weekly commentaries air Mondays and she appears weekly on WGBH-TV in Boston. She frequently hosts “Basic Black,” which focuses on current events concerning communities of color.
She has used her work with these platforms to tackle a wide range of topics, from the Women’s March to an instance of cable revolution. Along with these mediums, she produced “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years” — a critically acclaimed documentary series that earned her an Oscar nomination, national Emmy, and other recognitions.
Crossley has received several honors in her tenure, including a National Association of Black Journalists award for the program “Basic Black: Celebrating a Prince, a Queen and a General.” She earned the Barbara Stone Hollander Award for Women’s Leadership from the Women’s Institute at Chatham University. She has held two Harvard Fellowships.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds two honorary degrees — a Doctor of Arts from Pine Manor College and a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cambridge College.
The CIC Visiting Fellows program through the Council of Independent Colleges enables institutions to plan a customized visit from a professional who engages students, employees and the community in the issues of our times.