Condace Pressley

Condace Pressley

Director of Community and Public Affairs
WSB-TV
Speaker

Bio

Condace Pressley is an award-winning journalist.  She is a two-time Hall of Fame member – inducted in 2019 into the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and in 2016 into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame. 

As Director of Community Affairs for WSB-TV, Condace drives the Family 2 Family Project and leads the station’s community efforts across its broadcast platforms including WSB-TV and the company’s four radio stations. She’s executive producer of People 2 People on WSB-TV and interviews community leaders weekly during the People 2 People “One on One” segment.

Condace began her career in radio, first in Athens while studying journalism and political science at The University of Georgia and later in Atlanta at WGST, the Georgia News Network, WSB, KISS104.1 and B98.5.  For more than 30 years she’s hosted the Sunday morning public affairs program “Perspectives” where she’s interviewed hundreds of community and thought leaders.

The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication honored Pressley with the John H. Drewry Outstanding Young Alumna Award in 1992.  In 2015, The Grady College named Pressley to its Centennial Class of Journalism Fellows - the college’s highest honor.  She has been profiled by The HistoryMakers, the world’s largest African American oral video history archive for her significant contributions to media. Condace is a former President of both the National Association of Black Journalists (2001-2003) and Atlanta Association of Black Journalists (1991-1995).  She was the chapter’s 2012 Pioneer Black Journalist. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta.

Condace has passion for community and is strongly committed to the empowerment of women and girls.  Her volunteer efforts include service on the boards of the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Crime Stoppers Atlanta, Project Healthy Grandparents and Day 1 - The Alliance for Christian Media.   Condace loves travel and supports the arts.