Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead is an American educator, author, radio host, speaker, and documentary filmmaker who is known as the #blackmommyactivist.

[9] In 2020, Whitehead was selected by the Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women;[10] by the Baltimore Sun as the Best Radio Host.

[11] In 2019, Whitehead received the Collegium Visionary Award from the college of Holy Cross;[12] the Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) from the National Women's Political Caucus for her work editing and compiling #BlackGirlActivism: Exploring the Ways We Come Though the Storm,[13] a special issue of the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal (Duke University Press); the Baltimore Sun named her as one of Baltimore's 25 "Women to Watch in 2019"; and, Essence magazine included her on the 2019 "Woke 100 List," of "black women advocating for change.

[16] In 2016, Whitehead received the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies' "Distinguished Alumni" Award from the University of Notre Dame.

[21] Whitehead is the author of four books including Letters for My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America[22] and Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis[23] which was reviewed in Journal of American History.