Callie Crossley is host of "The Callie Crossley Show" on Boston’s WGBH-FM, 89.7.

In addition to her radio program, Crossley offers regular commentary on media for Beat the Press, which airs on Boston based WGBH-TV, and for Fox25 TV’s Morning News Show.

She regularly moderates the TV program Basic Black also on WGBH-TV, and appears occasionally on national news and information programs including CNN’s Reliable Sources, The PBS News Hour, and The Takeaway, and is an occasional contributor to Tell Me More with Michel Martin.

Crossley is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow guest lecturing at colleges and universities about the collision of old and new media, media and politics, media literacy, and the intersection of race, gender and media.

For the last nine years, Ms. Crossley has also served as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard directing the speakers program.

Prior to her current work, Ms. Crossley was a Producer for ABC NEWS "20/20" reporting health/ medicine stories. Crossley produced the Oscar® nominated hour of the acclaimed documentary series, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. “Bridge to Freedom” focused on the Selma, Alabama voting rights campaign. Crossley produced the film while working for Blackside, Inc., a Boston based independent film production company for which she also served as Senior Series Producer on the 2003 PBS documentary series “This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys.”

Crossley has won major film and television awards, including a national Emmy, a Peabody, a Christopher, an Edward R. Murrow award, and the top Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia award (Gold Baton), considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism.

She is the recipient of two Harvard Fellowships, the Nieman Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is also the recipient of two honorary degrees from Pine Manor College and Cambridge College.

She is a member of the judging Jury for the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Awards. She also sits on several Boston based Boards including the Ford Hall Forum, Cambridge Reads, and the Boston Book Festival.

Crossley is also a wine enthusiast. She talks about wine on NPR, authors the wine blog “The Crushed Grape Report,” and is a member of the Boston Wine Writers.

Guest artist: Regie Gibson

Former National Poetry Slam Champion Regie Gibson received his MFA from New England College. He's lectured and performed widely in the U.S., Cuba, and Europe — most recently at Teatro Binario 7 in Milan, Italy. In 2008 as a representative of the U.S., Gibson competed for and received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy. He and his work appear inlove jones, a feature film based on events in his life.

He's been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, various NPR programs, and nominated for a Boston Emmy. He's a recipient of both the Walker Scholarship for poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and a YMCA Writer's fellowship.

Regie Gibson has been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard's Divinity Magazine and The Iowa Review, among others. His volume of poems, Storms Beneath the Skin, received the Golden Pen Award.

In 2010 Regie received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for Poetry and the 2010-11 Lexington Education Foundation Program Grant. He performs regularly with his literary music ensemble Neon JuJu.