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Bonnie Boswell

Bonnie Boswell is a correspondent for KCET’s "California Connected", an in-depth news program focusing on the issues facing the state. She is also producing a documentary on her uncle, the late Whitney m. young, former Executive director of the National Urban League.

Prior to her current responsibilities, she was a feature reporter for the Channel 4 news. While at Channel 4, she earned a Golden Mike award for best news special for an hour program she produced on violence in America.

She began her career in television as a broadcast editorialist for WNBC-TV in New York. She then became the producer of a weekly news magazine. Her investigative reports received critical acclaim and her guests included politicians, community leaders and artists like Romare Bearden and entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. Soon after, Boswell left WNBC-TV to become an associate producer for ABC's "20/20."

After relocating to California, she became the producer and co-host of a live, weekly, call-in talk show on the Hallmark channel. The program reached 30 million households nationwide and was one of the top programs on Hallmark. With her co-host, the long time justice leader pastor James M. Lawson, discussions encompassed political and social trends with viewers and in-studio guests, such as historian John Hope Franklin and actors Martin Sheen, Alfred Woodard and Ed Asner.

She has won numerous honors for her work including an Emmy, an Associated Press award, a corporation for public broadcasting fellowship for senior producers and a media award from Black Enterprise Magazine. She has been a guest speaker at Princeton and Harvard universities and has appeared as a guest on NBC's "today" show, CNN's "Talkback" and the CBS Radio Network. Her articles have appeared in Essence Magazine, The Radcliffe Quarterly and The Los Angeles Times.

Boswell graduated with a degree in anthropology from Harvard University before receiving a master's degree in city planning from MIT. Boswell is a former member of the executive peer board of the Academy Of Television Arts and Sciences, the Los Angeles Urban League, American Women in Radio and Television and the National Association of Black Journalists. She resides in the Los Angeles area with her family.

Related links:
The Onyx Stone from The Radcliffe Quarterly Fall/Winter 1997
Religion Is for Doing from The Radcliffe Quarterly Spring 1999