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Women’s Media Center Co-Founders Jane Fonda,
Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem
Announce
The Women’s Media Center’s 20th Anniversary
Women’s Media
Awards Honorees:
Geralyn White Dreyfous
S. Mitra Kalita
Imani Perry
Erica Smiley
Jessica Valenti
Celebrating 20 Years of the Women’s Media Center
New York, New York -
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 20th Anniversary Women’s Media
Awards to be held on Thursday, June 5th
at the JW Marriott Essex House Hotel in New York City. The
event will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the
Women’s Media Center.
The WMC AWARDS are presented to
outstanding leaders and champions for women in media.
The Women’s Media Center’s 20th Anniversary
Women’s Media Awards
Honorees
are:
·
Geralyn White Dreyfous,
Co-Founder of JOLT and Impact Partners, Chair and Co-Founder
of the Utah Film Center, and Film Producer,
will be honored with the WMC
Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award.
·
S. Mitra Kalita,
Author; Co-Founder and CEO
of URL Media and Epicenter NYC, will be honored with
the WMC Carol Jenkins Award.
·
Imani Perry,
Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor
of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,
and of African and American Studies; Carol K. Pforzheimer
Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute,
will be honored with the WMC
Progressive Women’s Voices Impact Award.
·
Erica Smiley,
Author and Executive Director of Jobs With Justice,
will be honored with the WMC
Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award.
·
Jessica Valenti,
Author, Writer, Activist, and Creator of Abortion, Every
Day, 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,
Anne Kiehl
Friedman, Mellody Hobson,
Cindy Holland,
Michelle
Mercer & Bruce Golden,
Pat Mitchell,
Susan Pritzker,
Sheryl
Sandberg,
Regina K.
Scully,
Mary & Steven Swig, Meredith
Bluhm Wolf,
and Sophia Yen.
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 20th Anniversary
Women’s Media Awards , go to:
https://act.womensmediacenter.com/a/2025-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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