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Karsonya Eugenia Wise Whitehead (born August 2, 1968) is an American writer, author, motivational speaker,educator, and Associate Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Life
Growing up as a daughter of a pastor and a teacher, Whitehead began writing and public speaking at a very early age. Her father often called on her to recite bible verses in church on Sunday mornings. When she was seven, after complaining to her mother that she needed more hours in the day to share everything that she had on her mind, her mother told her to write it down so she would not forget and then bought her her first journal. Whitehead has been writing and recording her life stories since then.

Whitehead attended William McKinley High School In Washington, DC, graduating in 1986. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Lincoln University, PA in 1991 where she pledged Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (spring 1989) and served as the editor of the school newspaper. In 1989, she received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at the University of Michigan and then at the University of Texas, Austin (1991). In 1990, she was awarded a Crossroads Fellowship to travel and live in Nairobi, Kenya. Whitehead received her Master’s in International Peace Studies from the Joan B. Kroc Center for International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. http://kroc.nd.edu/profiles-peacebuilding/kaye-ma-93 She was one of the 60 poets chosen nationwide to work in the inaugural year of President William Clinton’s WritersCorps program.After receiving the 1995 Emerging Filmmaker’s Award from the Black Filmmaker’s Foundation and Spike Lee, Whitehead attended the New York Film Academy, specializing in narrative and documentary filmmaking. https://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/nyfa-grad-releases-new-book-notes-from-a-colored-girl/  https://vimeo.com/99339284

In 1996, after completing her first film, “compositions,” Whitehead started working as an associate producer at Music Television Networks (MTV) where she worked on MTV Jams with Bill Bellamy, The Pinfield Suite with Matt Pinfield, and Spring Break: Jamaica. She produced Sean “Puffy” Combs first “Puff Daddy’s House” and the pilot for “MTV Soul.” She moved to Metro Channels LLC in 1999 to work as a senior producer producing three live television shows. At the same time, Whitehead continued to write and perform poetry and in 1998, she received the Zora Neale Hurston Creative Writing Award from the Gwendolyn Brooks Creative Writing Center at the University of Chicago. In 1999 and 2000, the Center also awarded her the Langston Hughes, David Diop, Etheridge Knight Poetry Award.

After 9/11, Whitehead directed and produced the documentary, “Twin Towers: A History,” http://www.worldcat.org/title/twin-towers-a-history/oclc/50686188/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true that explores the history of the Twin Towers. In 2002, It was nominated for a New York City Emmy®. http://variety.com/2003/tv/awards/wnbc-tops-n-y-emmy-noms-1117880757/ She also directed and produced “Little Miracle” and “Life Lessons Learned in Last Place: The Zoe Kopliwitz Story,” both of which were received New York City Emmy® nominations.

After relocating to Baltimore, MD in 2003, Whitehead joined the Baltimore City Teaching Residency (BCTR). She worked as a middle school Advanced Academics Social Studies teacher at West Baltimore Middle School teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. In 2005, she was one of fifty alumni to receive the Distinguished Black Alumni Award from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana One year later, she received the Gilder Lehrman Preserve America Maryland History Teacher of the Year Award (sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Maryland State Department of Education). http://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-exhibitions/2006-state-winners After receiving the 2007 SREB Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for Maryland (only one doctoral fellowship is awarded per state), http://www.sreb.org/page/1916/dr_karsonya_whitehead.html Whitehead completed her doctoral studies in Language, Literary, and Culture from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She specializes in pre-Civil War African American history; the modern Civil Rights Movement; and, race, class, and gender studies, She has received various fellowships and grants to support her work including a 2012 Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History, a 2011 Lord Baltimore Fellowship from the Maryland Historical Society, and a 2010 NEH Summer Stipend.

Whitehead is a sought after public speaker who has spoken around the country on issues ranging from #BlackLivesMatter to the Emancipation Proclamation. From 2013-2015, Whitehead has been selected as one of only four experts to participate in the White House's Black History Month Panel co-sponsored by President Obama and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History ASALH on topics ranging from the modern Civil Rights Movement to the president’s policies on women and girls. In 2014, she was one of the featured speakers at the Youth Mentoring Summit at the U.S. Capital in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. She has received numerous awards and distinctions including the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC) and being selected as one of the top 25 women professors in Maryland by Online Schools Maryland. Dr. Whitehead has trained over 2500 K-12 teachers throughout the country in how to become culturally responsive teachers in diverse environments having worked as a Master Teacher with Teaching American History and with the Black Quilted Narratives project sponsored by the Kellogg Institute.

She lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and her two teenage sons.

Publications
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Whitehead’s books include Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis (University of South Carolina Press, 2014), which received the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award for Best Book in African American women’s and gender history from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/darlene-clark-hine-award/darlene-clark-hine-award/ and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award for Best Edited Book in African American History from the Association of Black Women Historians. Notes from a Colored Girl was the first book to fully transcribe and annotate the pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn black woman living in Philadelphia. The publication of this book (a newly discovered voice being entered into the canon of black women’s print culture) cemented Whitehead’s work as a “griot on the go,” a storyteller spreading stories about the history, life, and experiences of black people in this country. It received a Library Journal (starred review) and was selected to be included on Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2013-2014. Her other books include Sparking the Genius: The Carter G. Woodson Lecture (2014) and Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America (2015). She is also the co-editor of Rethinking Emilie Frances Davis: Lesson Plans for Teaching Her Civil War Pocket Diaries (2014). In February 2014, she served as a special guest Opinion Editorial columnist for "The Baltimore Sun," profiling live in the African American community from American enslavement to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. She is also a guest host for "The Marc Steiner Show," WEAA 88.9 FM.

Whitehead has three forthcoming books: two scholarly monographs, Notes from a Slave Ship 1749-1751 and The Emancipation Proclamation: Race Relations on the Eve of Reconstruction, and a book of poetry, today 07.17.2014: my heart just stopped. She is the editor of 50 Key Events that Shaped African American History.

Additional Publications
Book Chapters “Metacognitive RACLaGE Reflection: A Black Professor’s Journey to Use the Master’s Tools to Dismantle His House” in Pedagogical Ups and Downs: Scholars of Color Reflect on Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms, ed. George Yancy and Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Critical Social Thought Series. New York: Routledge. 136-146. (2013) “Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Exploring the Lives and Experiences of Black Women during the 19th Century” in The True worth of a Race: African American Women and the Struggle for Freedom, ed. Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. and Kenvi Phillips. Association of Black Women Historians. (2013) “‘Rise in the Scale of Being’: Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Philadelphia Ministry, and Florida Politics,” in Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians, ed. Matthew Lynch. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 330-359. (2012)

Articles
“Harriet Tubman: From Maternal Mother to Jezebel,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 12, #2 (2014): 156-160.

“Strumming Our Fate With Her Fingers: Remembering Maya Angelou,” Black History Bulletin 77 #2 (2014): 1-5.

“Reframing the Historical Narrative,” Black History Bulletin 76 #2 (2013): 34-36.

Gist, Conra D. and Kaye Wise Whitehead. “Deconstructing Dr. King’s ‘Letter’ & the Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance,” Black History Bulletin 76 #2 (2013): 6-10.

“The Long Arm of Justice” Swings From the Emancipation Proclamation to the March on Washington,” Black History Bulletin 75 #2 (2012): 24-26.

“Reconstructing the Life of a Colored Woman: The Pocket Diaries of Emilie F. Davis,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 135, #4 (2011): 561-564.

“They Both Got History: Using Diary Entries to Analyze the Written Language and Historical Significance of Free Black Philadelphia,” LLC Review 2009 (2009): 48-61.

Biographies

“Emilie Davis” and “Ida Elizabeth Bowser Asbury,” Oxford African American Studies Center: The Online Authority of the African American Experience, sr. ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. http://www.oxfordaasc.com/ (2012)

“Sarah Parker Remond,” The Encyclopedia of African-American History, ed. Leslie Rucker and Walter C. Rucker. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO): 512-513. (2010)

“Maritcha Lyons,” “Olivia America Davidson,” and “Frances ‘Frank’ Rollin,” African American National Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) (2008)

Educational Materials
“Beyond Myths and Legends: Teaching Harriet Tubman and Her Legacy of Activism,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 12, #2 (2014): 196-218.

“Telling Our Story: Discovering a Century of Black History through the Arts,” Black History Bulletin 77 #2 (2014): 5-8.

Gist, Conra D. and Kaye Wise Whitehead. “Activist Writing: Deconstructing Dr. King’s Political Essays,” Black History Bulletin 76 #2 (2013): 11-13.

“The Long Arm of Justice”: Using Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech to Analyze and Deconstruct The Civil Rights Movement,” Black History Bulletin 75 #2 (2012): 27-30.

“Expanding the Private and the Public,” Oxford African American Studies Center: The Online Authority of the African American Experience, sr. ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. http://www.oxfordaasc.com/ (2012)

“Throwing Off Their Fetters: Analyzing the Work of Sarah Parker Remond and Mariah Stewart,” Oxford African American Studies Center: The Online Authority of the African American Experience, sr. ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. http://www.oxfordaasc.com/ (2012)

“Restoring Baltimore: Loyola College and the Year of the City.” With Michael Braden and Russell Cook. Loyola College in Maryland. 32 min. (2006-2010) Integrating With All Deliberate Speed, edited by Renee Poussaint, Camille Cosby, John Hope

Teaching American History Online Lesson Plan Project. Baltimore, MD: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Center for History Education. (2006)

Baltimore City Middle School Social Studies Curriculum Realignment (6th-8th grades). (2006)

Essays
Stories We Tell: From Baltimore to Denver,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 44, Article 21: 34. With Jason Taylor, http://epublications.marquette.edu/conversations/vol44/iss1/21 (2013)

"I Stood in the Founder's Cave” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education 41, Article 25: 43-44, http://epublications.marquette.edu/conversations/vol41/iss1/25 (2012)

Opinion Editorials
“Bending the Arc of Justice,” The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2014.

“A Necessary Conversation,” The Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2014. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-ferguson-20140817,0,6742258.story#ixzz3AYKWdDkv

“My Heart Just Stopped: Remembering Maya Angelou,” The Baltimore Sun, May 31, 2014. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-05-31/news/bs-ed-angelou-20140531_1_martin-luther-king-jr-caged-bird-sings-maya-angelou

“A Never Ending War,” The Baltimore Sun, February 18, 2014. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-02-18/news/bs-ed-dunn-verdict-20140217_1_ending-war-george-zimmerman-sons

“Cancer Breaks all the Rules,” The Baltimore Sun, November 6, 2013. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-cancer-reflections-20131106,0,1847775.story

“The Road to Peace Does Not Start with War,” The Baltimore Sun, September 8, 2013. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-syria-20130908,0,7149182.story#ixzz2eMDuEDZs

“President Obama could have closed the circle with visit to Tubman House,” Syracuse Post, August 27, 2013. http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2013/08/president_obama_could_have_clo.html

“After Trayvon: Having the Talk With Our Son.” With Johnnie Whitehead, The Baltimore Sun, July 21, 2013. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-07-21/news/bs-ed-black-youth-20130721_1_trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-gang-violence

“Black History is US History,” The Baltimore Sun, February 16, 2012. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-02-15/news/bs-ed-black-history-20120215_1_black-history-month-carter-g-woodson-frederick-douglass

Creative Work
Poetry/Short Stories

“Let All Black Men Be Created Like My Father,” Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, ed. by Haki Madhubuti, 7. Chicago: The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University. (1999)

“Pledging to Be Me,” Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, edited by Haki Madhubuti, 10-14. Chicago: The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University. (1998)

“Chant to the Ancestors,” Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, edited by Haki Madhubuti, 14-15. Chicago: The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University. (1997)

“Chant to the Ancestors” and “Revolution Starts at 11:50 am,” Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry, ed. Charlotte Watson Sherman, xviii and 320. New York: HarperPerennial Press. (1994)

Films
Historical consultant and on-camera expert. Emilie Frances Davis. Philadelphia: History Making Productions, Inc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6r5vHv0I-Y&list=PLvmtpmiHJHggjesmnVOjvvU0E_LMr0nHl (2014)

Historical consultant, on-camera expert, and contributing writer. Fever: 1793. Philadelphia: History Making Productions, Inc. 30 min.  Four 2013 Emmy® Awards (MidAtlantic Chapter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB2G_-iYZ6s&list=PLvmtpmiHJHggjesmnVOjvvU0E_LMr0nHl&index=10 (2012)

Historical consultant. Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Philadelphia: History Making Productions, Inc. 30 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB2G_-iYZ6s&list=PLvmtpmiHJHggjesmnVOjvvU0E_LMr0nHl&index=10 (2012)

Historical consultant. Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia: History Making Productions, Inc. Webisode:  7:03 min. http://www.historyofphilly.com/media.html (2011)

Co-producer with Mark Daniels. George Washington Bridge: Crossing the Hudson. New York: Metro Channels, LLC. 47 min. http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1177 (2003) Director, co-producer and writer with Annie Sundbeg. Twin Towers, A History. New York: Metro Channels, LLC. 48 min. 2002 New York Emmy® Nomination http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=1176 (2001)

Director, producer and writer. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty. Connecticut: CTE, Incorporated. 14 min. (2001) Director and producer. Life Lessons Learned in Last Place: The Zoe Kopliwitz Story. Executive Produced by Judith Tolkow. New York: Metro Channels, LLC. 32 min. 2001 New York Emmy® Nomination

Director and producer. Little Miracle. Executive Produced by Judith Tolkow. New York: Metro Channels, LLC. 32 min. 2000 New York Emmy® Nomination

Director, producer and writer. Compositions. Executive Produced by Edward R. Lewis. New York: Maat Filmworks, Incorporated. 27 min. (1996)