AWC-DC Matrix Award Honorees
AWC-DC Matrix Professional Achievement Award Winners
Previous Matrix Luncheon Guest Speakers
Hall of Fame Inductees
- 2002: Elizabeth Campbell
- Founder of WETA
AWC-DC Matrix Professional Achievement Award Winners
This program for professional recognition was introduced at the 1997 annual Matrix event. The Matrix program has honored the following communicators:
- 2009: Michelle Singletary
- Columnist, The Washington Post
- 2009: Kate Perrin
- CEO, PRofessional Solutions, LLC
- 2008: Eleanor Clift
- Contributing Editor, Newsweek; Columnist, Newsweek.com
- 2007: Helen Thomas
- Hearst News Service
- 2007: JC Hayward
- W*USA-TV, Channel 9
- 2006: Cokie Roberts
- ABC-7 and National Public Radio
- 2006: Margery Kraus
- President & CEO, APCO Worldwide
- 2005: Andrea Mitchell
- Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
- 2004: Jamie Foster Brown
- Publisher, Sister-2-Sister Magazine
- 2004: Maria Rodriguez
- Co-Founder, Vanguard Communications
- 2003: Kathleen Matthews
- ABC-7
- 2003: Victoria (Torie) Clarke
- former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
- 2002: Maureen Bunyan
- Veteran television news broadcaster and the primary news anchor for ABC-7
- 2002: Diane Rehm
- Popular weekday-morning talk show host for WAMU
- 2001: Rita Cosby
- Three-time EMMY winner for investigative reporting
- 2000: Karen Jurgensen
- Editor of USA Today
- 1999: Susan Robinson King
- Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Labor
- 1998: Deborah Tannen
- linguist and best-selling author
- 1997: Judy Woodruff
- CNN News Anchor
Previous Matrix Luncheon Guest Speakers
Previous guest speakers at the annual Matrix event have been
- 1996: Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- NewsHour National Correspondent
- 1995: Rebecca Walker
- writer and activist
- 1994: Diane Rehm
- Radio Talk Show Host
- 1993: Madeleine Kunin
- Deputy Education Secretary
- 1992: Ellen Malcolm
- Emily's List Founder
- 1991: Helen Thomas
- UPI Bureau Chief
