Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead is the founding executive director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice and a professor of communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland. She is the host of the award-winning radio show Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA, 88.9 FM and the recent recipient of the Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence. Dr. Kaye is the author five books including the recently release my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches from Baltimore’s Black Butterfly, and the award-winning Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis.