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The guest speaker for the luncheon is Professor Kaye Wise Whitehead of Loyola University. Ms. A’Lelia Bundles will serve as the emcee for the afternoon.
Professor Kaye Wise Whitehead
Professor Kaye Wise Whitehead, is an associate professor of Communication and African and African American Studies in the Department of Communication at Loyola University Maryland and the Founding Executive Director of The Emilie Frances Davis Center for Education, Research, and Culture. She is the author of three books: “Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis” which received both the 2015 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2014 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; “Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America,” and “Sparking the Genius: The Carter G. Woodson Lecture;” and the co-editor of “Rethinking Emilie Frances Davis: Lesson Plans for Teaching Her Civil War Pocket Diaries.” Also, Professor Wise Whitehead is a K-12 Master Teacher in African American History; an award-winning former Baltimore City middle school teacher, winning the 2006 Maryland History Teacher of the Year Award; and, three time New York Emmy nominations documentary filmmaker. Click here for full biography
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