2023 Women and Media Awards

WIFP announced the recipients of the 2023 Women and Media Award October 29th at a celebration in Washington, DC.

The annual Awards are granted to women who have made outstanding contributions seeking media democracy and toward expending women’s voices.

This year, WIFP honored seven deserving media women.

Briahna Joy Gray is an American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant who served as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Formerly a columnist and Senior Politics Editor at the Intercept, she was also contributing editor to Current Affairs Magazine. Joy Gray has written for the Guardian, New York Magazine, and Rollings Stone. She currently co-hosts The Hill’s Rising. Her popular podcast is called Bad Faith.

Mnar Adley is founder, CEO, and editor in chief of MintPress News, an independent watchdog journalism organization that provides issue-based original reporting, in-depth investigations, and thoughtful analysis of the most pressing topics facing our nation. Adley is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, and neo-conservativism within the media and journalism start-ups.

Catherine Murphy is a DC-based filmmaker who has spent much of her life living and working in Latin America. She is founder and director of The Literacy Project, a multi-media documentary project on literacy in the Americas. Her films explore the intersection of education and justice movements in the Americas.

Fiorella Isabel is a journalist and geo-political analyst. She is the co-host of the Convo Couch which airs on independent media platforms like Rokfin, Rumble, and YouTube. Fiorella Isabel reports for RT (Russia Today) and currently lives in Moscow.

Kimberlie Kranich is Director of Community Content and Engagement at WILL AM-FM-TV (25 years). She is senior manager and a member of the Leadership Team. Her expertise is in managing a diverse pool of public media talent across multiple platforms with multiple community partners. Kranich has been an Associate of WIFP since she first joined as an intern in 1988.

Jo-Anne McArthur is a photographer and the founder of We Animals media. She is the cofounder of The Unbound Project which celebrates women animal advocates worldwide. Documenting our complex relationship with animals in almost sixty countries for over fifteen years, McArthur is the author of three books, We Animals, Captive, and Hidden.

Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. is Political Director of the Organic Consumers Association. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is a network of more than 1 million activists committed to creating a healthy, just, democratic, and regenerative food system. Baden-Mayer is a key organizer of some of OCA’s most popular campaigns, including the “Monsanto Makes Us Sick” campaign to ban Roundup.