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Jacquie Gales Webb has hosted the number one Sunday Afternoon Gospel Music Program in Washington, DC since 1990 on 96.3 WHUR. She is also a freelance arts reporter for WAMU in Washington, DC and the national arts program "Studio 360" at WNYC, New York. She has also written and produced radio documentary segments for NPR and the Library of Congress.. She created and produced programming for six years at W*USA-TV Channel 9 in Washington D.C. Her career in the nation's capitol began as a radio on-air personality and eventually manager of music and programming at Washington's first 24-hour Gospel radio station, WYCB-AM. Her Bachelor of Science in Speech, cum laude is from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. 

For Jacquie, Gospel music and Gospel radio has always been a personal blessing. Her prayer is that her work on the radio is a blessing to all who listen. Through serving her listeners she strives to serve the Lord.

Mrs. Webb was the executive producer of the award-winning public radio series "Remembering Slavery" which featured performances by Tonea Stewart, Debbie Allen, Clifton Davis, Louis Gossett, Jr., Esther Rolle, and James Earl Jones. The series was carried over 198 radio stations through the Public Radio International network, and was featured in the January 12, 1999 edition of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also was the host and producer of the award-winning television broadcast “Melodies from Heaven” which explored African American Gospel Radio in Washington, DC and aired on public television. In 2001 she executive produced a 13-hour radio documentary for the Smithsonian and Public Radio International on "Jazz Singers", hosted by Al Jarreau.

Another Jacquie Gales Webb production was the thirteen-part radio series "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" hosted by four-time Grammy Award winner Lou Rawls. The series ranked among the world's leading radio productions as recipient of a Peabody Award from the University of Georgia and an Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton from Columbia University. Webb is also the winner of 6 local EMMY awards for public affairs programming, and the recipient of 14 local EMMY nominations and many other awards for her work in video production.

Jacquie was born in New York City and raised by Christian instruction in Westbury, Long Island. In 1977 she received a Bachelor of Science in Speech degree, cum laude from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Her husband was the late media executive Clif Webb, a former Washington, D.C. news anchor who was president of Clif Webb Communications media strategy firm. Their union produced two daughters, Diana and Joanna.