Kuae Kelch Mattox is an Emmy-nominated journalist with more than 20 years experience in the print and broadcast media. She is a contributing editor for Plum Magazine, a pregnancy and parenting magazine for women over the age of 35. She also served recently as editor in chief of Black Family Today, a new, national magazine geared toward African American parents of children under ten.

She is a former producer for the award-winning newsmagazine Dateline NBC, as well as Headliners and Legends with Matt Lauer on MSNBC. Segments that she produced included stories about family stress, pregnancy and hypnosis, and the link between infertility and stress. While at NBC, she was the recipient of a National Headliner award for her work as field producer on a six-month investigative piece about Florida teachers with criminal backgrounds. She also produced a one-hour documentary on former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Previously, she was the first appointee in a new producer training program with The Oprah Winfrey Show.  Her broadcast experience also includes production work for ABC News, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and King World Productions.

Mattox is a former education reporter for The Miami Herald. Her articles have also appeared in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Electronic Media. Her most recent personal essay appeared in the book, The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy by Kimberly Seals-Allers (HarperCollins, 2005).

In 2000, Mattox left NBC News to become a stay at home mom to her three children, ages 5, 9 and 11. Since then, she has been active on both a local and national level, as a National Board member and national director of media and publicity for Mocha Moms, Inc., a fast growing, national, non-profit organization that supports stay at home mothers of color. During her tenure, she has increased the visibility of Mocha Moms and highlighted the stories of numerous mothers of color who have made the choice to modify or eliminate their employment to spend more time raising their children. Mocha Moms has been profiled in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence and Ebony Magazine, and television segments have appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America and ABC’s Nightline. Mattox has been interviewed by a wide range of media outlets including Real Simple, JET, Nick Jr. Magazine, Plum Magazine, Women’s eNews, BlackAmericaWeb.com and Voice of America. In November 2007, she was featured in a segment about black stay at home mothers during a special five-part series on NBC Nightly News called “African American Women: Where They Stand.”  She has spoken on panels for Plum, Catalyst, a leading women’s research and advisory organization, and at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y. In 2007, she became PTA president at Watchung School, a science and technology magnet recognized as a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. She was also selected as one of 12 high profile women from around the world to serve as a consultant on McDonald’s Global Moms Advisory Panel.

Mattox is founder and former president of the Essex County, NJ chapter of Mocha Moms, which launched in 2002 with 10 members. Since then, it has grown to more than 60 members who meet on a weekly basis and participate in a wide range of community service projects. She is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Montclair Early Childhood Corporation, which oversees the Montclair Community Pre-K, an award-winning, nationally recognized program based on the theory of multiple intelligence developed by Harvard professor Dr. Howard Gardner.

Ms. Mattox holds a B.A. in Print Journalism from Howard University, where she was Campus Editor of the critically acclaimed student newspaper The Hilltop, a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Frederick Douglass Honor Society and the Golden Key National Honor Society. She also holds an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she was awarded a fellowship with the Alfred I. DuPont Center for Broadcast Journalism.

She was a member of the National Association of Black Journalists for more than 13 years and a former member of the Radio, Television News Directors Association.

She resides in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband and three children.