*As we commemorate the thirty seventh Annual Celebration of Girls’s Historical past Month, the Multicultural Media & Correspondents Affiliation (MMCA) hosted its unique 2024 Sheroes in Media Awards reception on the historic Nationwide Press Membership in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The esteemed group of leaders in media, philanthropy, and communications, gathered to uplift extraordinary ladies who exemplify numerous media excellence.
The 2024 Sheroes in Media honorees included Janet Dewart Bell, Board Chair of Girls’s Media Middle; Tracie Powell, Founder and CEO of The Pivot Fund, Inc.; Katina Arnold, Board Chair of the Alliance for Girls in Media Basis; Alicia Bell, Director of Racial Fairness in Journalism Fund, Borealis Philanthropy; Yvette Cabrera, President of the Nationwide Affiliation of Hispanic Journalists; Nicole Dungca, President of the Asian American Journalists Affiliation; Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Founding father of the Institute for Impartial Journalists; and Emily Wilkins, President of the Nationwide Press Membership.
Adopted by the success of the inaugural digital ceremony in 2021, this 12 months’s occasion added two particular awards classes: the Lifetime Achievement Award, introduced to Margery Kraus, Founder and Government Chairman of APCO; and the Luminary Award, given to Janet Yang, award-winning Hollywood producer and President of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
“By no means underestimate the ability of being underestimated,” mentioned Kraus throughout her acceptance speech, as she recounted her journey of constructing one of many largest PR companies on the planet, as a first-generation Jewish girl with mother and father who immigrated from Cuba. She emphasised the significance of inclusion, noting “we now have rather more to do” to make sure extra variety and fairness within the media and society.
Different honorees shared comparable tales of grit, resilience, and braveness of overcoming stereotypes whereas rising to the highest the place they’re now main the battle to make sure each gender and multicultural illustration as presidents of assorted journalists or journalists-supporting organizations.
The awards have been additionally introduced by Olga Lucia Torres, Chair Board of Trustees, adopted by a quick overview of the MMCA’s accomplishments by trustee Sui Lang Panoke.
Emceed by Reena Ninan, a tv journalist and founding father of Good Hassle Productions, the Sheroes in Media Awards ceremony was co-created by MMCA president David Morgan and trustee Hannah Kim, former deputy assistant secretary for public affairs on the US Division of Well being and Human Companies, who additionally introduced the Lifetime Achievement Award to Margery Kraus. The occasion was produced by Inexperienced Gigz, Inc., World Technique Group and powered by the BIPOCXChange.
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