2021 FOREIGN PRESS AWARDEES
The following award recipients will deliver keynote speeches during our live stream awards ceremony:
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Yuval Noah Harari, Historian, Philosopher, and Bestselling author
Fran Lebowitz, Author, Journalist, and Social Observer
Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
Supporters and partners of the AFPC-USA
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS
Jim Acosta, CNN’s Anchor for weekend programming.
Steven, A. Kiefer, President of General Motors International.
Beth Roden, Senior Vice President and Head of U.S. Communications for Bayer US.
Damon Jones, Chief Communications Officer at Procter & Gamble.
James Longman, ABC News’ Foreign Correspondent.
Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President, Communications, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT).
Scott Keogh, President & CEO of Volkswagen of America.
Mitzi Perdue, Anti-Trafficking Advocate.
Scott Vazin, Chief Communications Officer at TOYOTA Motor North America.
ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARDEES
Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey (Ghana) is a freelance multimedia journalist with over a decade’s experience across media platforms.
Philip Crowther (Luxembourg) is the International Affiliate Reporter for the Associated Press.
Maria Danilova (Russia) is a journalist at Agence France-Presse in Washington D.C.
Janine di Giovanni (France) has been a reporter in many war zones and post-conflict areas in Africa, the Middle East and Balkans over the last 30 years.
Patrícia Vasconcellos (Brazil) is the U-S correspondent for Brazilian TV network Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão.
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEES
Mercy Adhiambo Orengo (Kenya) is a student at the graduate school of Journalism at Columbia University. She is in the MA-Science cohort. She was the 2020 Nieman visiting fellow at Harvard University.
Isabella Zavarise (Canada) is a Canadian journalist pursuing her M.A. at The University of Southern California where she’s focusing on business and data journalism.
Eleonora Bianchi (Switzerland) is second-year student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, focusing her career in narrative writing and Investigative journalism.
Natalia Sánchez Loayza (Peru) is Peruvian journalist, editor, and writer. She’s a master candidate in Bilingual Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism as a Future Journalist Fund Scholar. Additionally, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from NYU.
Noran Morsi (Egypt) is a writer and podcaster studying at New York University’s Literary Reportage MFA program She spent her first-year post-graduate as a reporter at Egyptian Streets, an independent online publication, where she founded the Egyptian Streets Podcast.
Idris Muktar (Kenya) is a master’s student at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a journalist across Africa for DW, CNN, among other national, regional and international news outlets.
Khushboo Razdan (India) is a multimedia journalist with over a decade of work experience in India and China. She is presently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Politics at the Columbia School of Journalism. In India, she worked for NDTV 24x7, Times Now, and India Today.