Abbie Kearse is a Peabody Award winning television producer and writer who worked for MTV News, a division of Viacom, from 1990 to 1998. The Peabody was won in 1992 for work as a writer on MTV's presidential election coverage the "Choose or Lose" campaign. Kearse produced a wide range of documentaries on music, politics and youth culture including "Gangsta Rap: An MTV News Special Report", "Tupac Shakur In His Own Words" and the Choose or Lose '96 special "Race and the Race", which examined race relations and the 1996 presidential election. In 1997, Kearse also worked for the MTV Radio Network hosting the channel's daily nationally syndicated newscast.

Abbie's film credits include principal interviews by on the 2003 Paramount Pictures documentary "Tupac: Resurrection" and consultant on "Biggie & Tupac: The Story Behind the Murder of Rap's Biggest Superstars" distributed by Lionsgate (2002).