Patchogue and Brooklyn, NY – February 6, 2006 – St. Joseph’s College has announced that Woodrow Wilson Fellow Callie Crossley will visit the College during the week of February 27 through March 3, 2006. The inaugural event in a week-long series will be a public lecture on the College’s Patchogue campus in the McGann Conference Room, O’Connor Hall, entitled “Passing the Baton: Activism in the 21st Century.” The talk, which will take place on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 12:30 p.m., will be followed by a discussion with faculty and students. On Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. Ms. Crossley will present her lecture to the Brooklyn campus in the Tuohy Hall auditorium. Beyond public lectures, Ms. Crossley will spend the week exchanging ideas with students, faculty and administrators.

Callie Crossley spent thirteen years as a network television producer for ABC’s 20/20, where she produced "Black in White America", a two-hour prime-time special on race relations in the U.S. She also produced the critically acclaimed PBS documentary "Eyes on the Prize" while working at Blackside, Inc., an independent film production company, which was honored with an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Also for Blackslide, she was Senior Producer for the documentary series, "This Far By Faith: Stories for the African-American Experience." Ms. Crossley is the recipient of several journalism awards, including a national Emmy, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an award from American Women in Radio and Television, and the Golden Baton. She appears weekly on the WGBH-TV program "Beat the Press", examining local and national media coverage. She has also appeared on CNN and NPR as a commentator.

Ms. Crossley is a graduate of Wellesley College, and attended Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow, a yearlong sabbatical for professional journalists. In February 2002, Harvard tapped Crossley again, naming her a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows connect a liberal education with the world beyond the campus by bringing thoughtful and successful practitioners to colleges for a week of classes and informal discussions with students and faculty. Fellows, who include government officials, business leaders, journalists, environmentalists and medical ethicists, are matched with small colleges chosen for their commitment to the goals of the program. Together they help to equip students for the social, political and economic settings they will enter and illuminate the roles they may play as professionals and informed citizens.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has developed and conducted programs in higher education since 1945. More than 200 colleges have participated in the Visiting Fellows program since 1973. This is the third consecutive year that St. Joseph’s has hosted a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the College.