Callie Crossley Biography
Callie Crossley is a broadcast journalist and radio host from the Boston region. She began hosting a new radio show called Under the Radar in March 2013 and continues to contribute to WGBH Radio’s “Boston Public Radio” program.
Callie Crossley Age
Callie was born in 1951, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America. She is 73 years old as of 2023.
Callie Crossley Education
Crossley graduated from Wellesley College in 1973 and possesses an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Pine Manor College as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Cambridge College. She was awarded a Nieman Fellowship as well as a fellowship from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics.
Callie Crossley Family
She has not yet disclosed any information about her parents or whether she has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Callie Crossley Career
She hosted The Callie Crossley Show, a one-hour daily talk show on WGBH-FM, 89.7, from December 2010 to June 2012. 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 have appeared on The Callie Crossley Show. Crossley is a television and radio analyst, moderator, and public speaker who speaks about the interplay of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender, and media.She appears frequently as a panelist on WGBH-TV’s Beat the Press and as a host on WGBH-TV’s Basic Black.
Crossley is a regular contributor to Public Radio International’s The Takeaway and has guest hosted NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin, where she also provides wine criticism. She is a regular on Fox Morning News WXFT-TV and an infrequent pundit on CNN’s Reliable Sources. Crossley is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Visiting Lecturer, which means she visits colleges and institutions to speak about media, politics, and the confluence of race, gender, and media. She is a featured speaker on Forum Network, a PBS, NPR, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting public media service that offers a free online video lecture series featuring the world’s best scientists, educators, artists, and authors.
Crossley also judges numerous major media competitions, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University competitions for Excellence in Broadcast media, and she maintains the blog “The Crushed Grape Report.”She serves on the boards of many Boston organizations, including the Boston Museum, the Ford Hall Forum, Cambridge Reads, and the Boston Book Festival.
Callie Crossley Awards
Crossley produced two of the six hours of the 1987 television documentary series Eyes on the Prize, Show Four–“No Easy Walk” and Show Six–“Bridge to Freedom,” which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 60th Academy Awards in 1988. Crossley won Wellesley College’s 2013 Alumnae Achievement Award, the highest honor given to alumnae for accomplishment and distinction in their fields of endeavor, which has been bestowed annually since 1970. Crossley is acknowledged as a “history maker” in the nation’s greatest collection of African-American film oral histories.
Callie Crossley Net Worth
Callie has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.