Kashon Powell is a respected industry vet who is this year’s Women of Color in Media, Radio Executive of the Year honoree. She started her career at KBXX in Houston, TX, where she rose through the ranks to Programmer. Then she headed west to Los Angeles, CA to work as the Urban Editor at the now-defunct Radio and Records magazine. Other stints include PD for WUSL/WDAS and as the Director of Urban Programming for iHeartMedia Norfolk and Richmond.
Powell joined Radio One (a second time after KBXX) in 2015 as the Program Director for WMMJ.
She was then promoted to Operations Manager in 2017 then was recently promoted again from OM of the Washington, DC cluster to Vice President of Programming. She oversees Radio One’s Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia stations and also programs Majic 102.3/92.7 (WMMJ/WDCJ) as well as the syndicated Russ Parr Morning Show.