The 2023 Women’s Media Award Honorees are:

• Mariska Hargitay, Emmy-winning actor, director, producer, activist, Founder & President of the Joyful Heart Foundation, will be honored with the WMC Sisterhood is Powerful Award.
• Fredricka Whitfield, CNN News anchor, will be honored with the WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Karen Lincoln Michel, President of ICT, formerly Indian Country Today, and President and CEO of IndiJ Public Media, will be honored with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award.
• Emily Ladau, Disability Rights Activist, author of Demystifying Disability, will be honored with the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award.
• Koritha Mitchell, award-winning author, cultural critic, literary historian, professor of English, will be honored with the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award.
• Akila Radhakrishnan, President of the Global Justice Center, will be honored with the Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award.