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Jane Fonda, Robin
Morgan, and Gloria Steinem – the Co-Founders of The WOMEN’S
MEDIA CENTER – have announced the honorees for the Women’s
Media Center’s 21st Anniversary Women’s Media Awards to be
held on Thursday, March 5th, at the Tribeca Rooftop in New
York City. The WMC AWARDS are presented to outstanding
leaders and champions for women in media.
The Women’s Media
Center’s 21st Anniversary Women’s Media Awards Honorees are:
• Margot
Wallström, Sweden’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
the first United Nations Special Representative on Sexual
Violence in Conflict, will be honored with the WMC Robin
Morgan Sisterhood is Powerful Award.
•
Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, President & CEO, Knight Foundation,
will be honored with the WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime
Achievement Award.
•
Barbara Kopple, two-time Academy Award-winning, Emmy-winning
director, producer, and activist, will be honored with the
WMC Ahead of Her Time Award.
• Paola
Ramos, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and author, will be
honored with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award.
•
Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director, Voces de la
Frontera, will be honored with the WMC Progressive Women’s
Voices IMPACT Award.
• Julie
F. Kay, Founder and CEO of Reproductive Futures, will be
honored with the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT
Award.
•
Chandra Childers, Senior Policy and Economic Analyst with
the Economic Policy Institute, will be honored with the WMC
Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award.
“The Women’s Media
Center’s call to action is simple: We want to see more
diverse women, hear more diverse women, and read articles
from more diverse women across all media platforms. Our
Women’s Media Awards honor champions for women who set the
standard for what media should look like when it gives voice
to the female half of the country. They are role models,
history-makers, and inspiring leaders,” said Julie Burton,
President & CEO of the WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER.
The Women’s Media
Awards Co-Chairs are: Loreen Arbus, Donna Deitch, Kiehl
Friedman Family, Mellody Hobson, Cindy Holland, Carlene C.
Laughlin, Cynthia McFadden, Michelle Mercer & Bruce Golden,
Pat Mitchell, Susan Pritzker, Sheryl Sandberg, Regina K.
Scully, Alexandra Shiva, and Mary & Steven Swig.
Additional support
for the WMC 2026 Women’s Media Awards includes the
Christensen Fund, Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund,
Abigail Disney, and Jenny Warburg. Proceeds from these
awards support the work of the WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER.
Past WMC honorees
include: Luvvie Ajayi, Yamiche Alcindor, Christiane Amanpour,
Loreen Arbus, Amma Asante, Laura Bates, Samantha Bee, Ursula
Burns, Aliyah Chavez, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Katie Couric, Donna Deitch, Abigail Disney, Jude
Ellison S. Doyle, Mona Eltahawy, Lauren Embrey, Rahna Epting,
America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Jenice Fountain, Fatima Goss
Graves, Mariska Hargitay, Maria Hinojosa, Cindy Holland,
Sarah Hoye, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, Congresswoman
Pramila Jayapal, Weijia Jiang, Sheila C. Johnson, Dr. Nikole
Hannah-Jones, Ashley Judd, Gayle King, Maria Teresa Kumar,
Laura Ling and Lisa Ling, Dahlia Lithwick, Lara Logan, Eva
Longoria, Zerlina Maxwell, Karen Lincoln Michel, Andrea
Mitchell, Pat Mitchell, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Rebecca Nagle,
Martha Nelson, Soledad O’Brien, Salma Hayek Pinault, Elianne
Ramos, Joy Reid, Robin Roberts, Loretta J. Ross, April Ryan,
María Elena Salinas, Anita Sarkeesian, Regina K. Scully,
Mary Thom, Marlo Thomas, Salamishah Tillet, Mariana Ardila
Trujillo, Barbara Walters, Padmasree Warrior, Lindy West,
Fredricka Whitfield, and Maggie Wilderotter.
To buy tickets to
Women’s Media Center’s 21st Anniversary
Women’s Media Awards, go to:
https://act.womensmediacenter.com/a/2026-womens-media-awards
About the WOMEN’S
MEDIA CENTER (WMC):
Founded by Jane
Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, the WOMEN’S MEDIA
CENTER (WMC) is a feminist organization that works for
gender and racial inclusion, representation, and equality in
media. The WMC mission is to make diverse women visible and
powerful in the media.
WMC programs address
unequal representation and misrepresentation of women in
media through interconnected strategies to: 1) Research,
document, and produce reports in the WMC Media Lab that
highlight the status of women in U.S. media, equip activists
with evidence, and create benchmarks to hold media
accountable for sexist and racist coverage; 2) Train women
leaders and experts to be effective in media and increase
their thought leadership through WMC Progressive Women’s
Voices and customized training and leadership programs; 3)
Recruit and promote diverse women experts to the media
through WMC SheSource; and 4) Investigate, report, and
publish original online and on-air journalism to expand
diverse women’s voices and representation.
For more information
about the ongoing work of the
WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER, go to:
www.womensmediacenter.com
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