CALLIE CROSSLEY is the host of the radio show and podcast Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, which airs on WGBH, 89.7 FM, Sundays from 6 to 7 pm. Her awardwinning radio essays air Mondays during GBH’s Morning Edition. She also hosts Basic Black on GBH-TV, which focuses on current events impacting communities of color. Crossley is a frequent commentator on local and national television and radio programs, and has been quoted in a variety of publications, including the Washington Post and Vanity Fair. She was the subject of a major feature published in the August 2021 issue of Boston Magazine.
Crossley has won multiple TV, radio, and film awards, including the prestigious Gold Baton duPont–Columbia Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her producing work on the documentary series Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years. She has also earned top honors for both her commentary and hosting/interviewing talent, including local and national Emmys, and awards from Associated Press, RTDNA Edward R. Murrow, Clarion, and the Public Media Journalists Association.
Crossley is also a former producer for ABC News’ 20/20, and a former Visiting Fellow of the Council of Independent Colleges (formerly Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow).
She was both a Nieman Fellow and an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University, and was honored as a distinguished alumna of Wellesley College in 2013, and in 2017 was named to Wellesley’s board of trustees. Crossley holds four honorary degrees: 2005 Doctorate of Arts Degree from Pine Manor College, 2009 Doctorate of Humane Letters from Cambridge College, 2018 Doctorate of Humane Letters from Wheaton College, and 2022 Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tufts University.
Crossley has been recognized with many community awards, including being named one of three 2023 Distinguished Bostonians by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and in 2022 named as one of four recipients of the Governor’s Award from Mass Humanities. Get Konnected named her one of 2021’s 50 Most Influential Women of Color in Boston. And in 2019, she received the Yankee Quill Award from the New
England Newspaper and Press Association, the Justice in Action Award from Jane Doe Inc. In 2017 she was honored with an Open Door Award from Old South Church. She is also featured in the 2011 book Boston, Inspirational Women, co- authored by award-winning photographer Bill Brett, Kerry Brett, and Carol Beggy.
