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Joia McManus Syphax
Joia McManus Syphax is the Program Associate for the John Lewis Young Leaders program, located in the Washington D.C. office. She works to further the mission of Kennedy Human Rights by supporting all programming for JLYL and various Human Rights Education projects. Previously, Joia worked in international development and peacebuilding at the United States Institute
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Aimee Howard
Aimee Howard is a paralegal on the U.S. Advocacy and Litigation team, where she supports impact litigation and policy work rooted in racial and social justice. She earned her B.A. in Government with a Secondary in African American Studies from Harvard University, where her research focused on urban development, segregation, and how lived experiences were
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Jonathan Blitzer
Tags Share The 2025 Book Award winner is “Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer. Drawing on his reporting as a staff writer for The New Yorker, Blitzer’s book is an epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the humanitarian crisis at the southern border.
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Stacy Kranitz and Kavitha Surana
Tags Share The full list of honorees for the 2025 RFK Journalism Awards can be found below. High School JournalismHigh school journalists are fighting back against censorshipPrismReportsMarium Zahra College JournalismFailure to ComplyHoward Center for Investigative Journalism, Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University Mia Berry, Chad Bradley, Sam Ellefson, Aspen Ford, Christopher Lomahquahu, Madison Perales, Reagan
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