Scholarships
ANWC 2025-2026 Scholarship Application
The ANWC Scholarship 2025 application process is now open. The Club will be awarding two $1500-2000 scholarships to students (juniors or seniors) pursing a career in the journalism or media field. Please click here to view the instructions for the application and send the final submission to anwclub@comcast.net. The submission deadline is Monday, March 18, 2025. We are looking forward to hearing from our applicants.
Meet Our Proud 2024 ANWC Scholarship Winners!
Scholarship Recipients (left to right): Weslan Hansen (AU '24), Aleena Fayaz (GW '24), and Angelique Gingras (UMD '24).
To read more about the 2024 winners, click here.
Meet Our 2021 ANWC Scholarship Winners!
2021 ANWC scholarship recipient Georgie Mierow, CBS News President Susan Zirinski, scholarship recipient Camenlucia Acosta and Lesley Stahl
Georgie Mierow: Georgena “Georgie” Mierow is an undergraduate student at the George Washington University. She is majoring in Journalism and Mass Communications with a minor in French. In the fall, she will start graduate level courses to earn her MA in Media and Strategic Communications and a certificate in documentary making.
Carmenlucia Acosta: Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, on the border of Ciudad Juarez Mexico, Carmenlucia Acosta, seeks to use her bilingual abilities and life experiences to represent Mexican Americans in the editorial industry. Upon graduating from American University with a BA in Journalism and double minors in Marketing and Business Entertainment, Carmenlucia wishes to pursue a career in fashion journalism and provide a platform for those misrepresented.
The ANWC awards scholarships to two to four journalism students each year. The 2016 ANWC Scholars are all aspiring journalists who have demonstrated merit, professional commitment and seriousness of purpose. They are:
Katharine Magill
Passionate for journalism, Kate aspires to become an investigative reporter. At American University, Kate
Ellie Hartleb and Katharine Magill stand onstage at the National Press Club studies both print journalism and political science and hopes that her knowledge of political science will come to her aid while covering issues relating to elections and voting. While pursuing her studies, Kate has recently been promoted from reporter to editor-in-chief for the American University student newspaper, The Eagle. Her aspiration is to cover hard-hitting topics that will impact her readers so she can earn respect as a reporter.
Ellie Hartleb
2015 ANWC Scholars
Emily Schweich, a rising junior at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, who is pursuing a degree in broadcast journalism. Her goal is to become a Washington-based news anchor, reporting particularly on issues affecting women including gender-based violence and workplace fairness and diversity. She has interned at WUSA9, worked as a volunteer behind the cameras for Maryland Capital News Service’s Maryland Newsline and works part-time in communications for the university’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Emily is also ANWC's 2014 Jane Lingo Scholar, named in honor of pioneering journalist Jane Tunstall Lingo, a long-time ANWC member who was also among the first women admitted to the National Press Club. The second half of her career was advancing women’s education at George Washington University, and she endowed this special ANWC scholarship.
Dominique Bonessi, a rising senior at the George Washington University who is majoring in journalism and mass communications, and Arab language and literature. Her goal as a journalist is to use her language skills to increase understanding among cultures. While still in high school, she studied in Cairo, Egypt, and that experience, with the subsequent events of the Arab spring, led her to choose her double major. She's interned with Middle East Broadcasting and, most recently, has been studying in Amman, Jordan, where she gathered material on how social media affects the lives of Jordanian women, the topic of her senior thesis.
Diana Marinaccio, a rising senior at the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, where she's majoring in journalism and mass communications, and minoring in Spanish/cross-cultural communications. She aspires to become a multimedia news producer working with broadcast and on-line platforms. She has interned with The Today Show in New York and NBC4 in Washington, and will intern this summer with Dateline NBC in New York. On campus, she has been a multimedia editor with the GW Hatchet and interned with Prime Movers Media, teaching journalism to high school students.