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American News Women's Club  Home of Trailblazers

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Club Admin Hours: (Summer)
Mon. & Wed. 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. 
Fri. by appointment.
Please contact us at anwclub@comcast.net or call us at 202-332-6770.

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Membership renewal season for 2026-27 will begin July 1, 2026.

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Meet ANWC Marketing, Media, and Program Coordinator 2026

Sol Garrido Vega (GW'28) pictured with Ann Compton (Featured speaker at the ANWC Annual Meeting and trailblazer ABC News White House Correspondent 1974-2014)

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ANWC Acting President MC Andrews with USA Today DC Bureau Chief Susan Page at the ANWC Annual Meeting on June 18, 2025. An amazing night for woman trailblazers in journalism!

Click here to view more photos.

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ANWC EIJ Recipient 2025, Petula Dvorak flanked by ANWC EIJ Recipient 2010 and Scholarship Chair, Eleanor Clift. It was a big night for local journalism! To read the program for the evening, click here.

NYT White House Correspondent Katie Rogers' book made available at last year's Annual Meeting.

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Congratulations ANWC EIJ Scholarship Winners 2025, pictured our 2024 Scholarship Winners!

Eleanor Clift (Scholarship Committee Chair, ANWC EIJ Recipient, 2010), Weslan Hansen (AU '24), Angelique Gingras (UMD '24), Maureen Dowd (EIJ Recipient '24), and Aleena Fayaz (GW '24).

For more information on our scholarship winners click here.

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Meet ANWC EIJ Scholarship Winners 2023

Sejal Govindarao (GW '24), Syedah Asghar (AU '23), Dana Bash (EIJ Recipient '23), and Jane Fusco (AU '25). Click here to learn more. 

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WATCH OUR VIDEOS:

* 2023 Excellence in Journalism VIP Reception honoring Dana Bash, May 24, at the Clubhouse. Click here.
*Sept. 28, "Saving History" program with Dorothy Gilliam, Maurine Beasley, and Petula Dvorak. Click here.
 *2022 EIJ Award Celebration and Benefit Dinner honoring Bob Woodward, ANWC's 90th Anniversay video. Click here.
*2022 Scholarship winners video. Click here.

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Pravina Khadka (GW, '26) is ANWC's Marketing/Media Coordinator. Pravina is overseeing Club and Cranford House marketing and membership activities.  

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ANWC's Past Scholarship Winners

2022

Daniella Jimenez (AU,'24), Bob Woodward (ANWC EIJ Recipient '22), Hannah Loder (GW, '23) and Nzinga Temu (Howard, '22) pictured at the National Press Club on May 12, 2022.

2021

Carmenluciia Acosta (AU, '21) and Georgena Mierow (GW, '21) pictured on the podium at the National Press Club in May, 2021 with Board Member and Chairman of the Scholarship Committee, Eleanor Clift.

2019

 

Photo Galleries

Click here to view photos of
the many exciting ANWC events.

ANWC Board Members 2026–2027

Claire Sanders Swift,  Executive Chairman (acting), Past President

                             Mary Catherine (M.C.) Andrews, Co-President

                                                        Margot Raphael, Secretary

John Greco, Vice President, Communications

Lisa Stark, Co Vice President, Membership

Jane Pennewell, Co Vice President, Membership 

Sandy Trupp, Governor, Co-Treasurer

Sheilah Kast, Governor, Co-Chair Programs, Scholarships Committees

Eleanor Clift, Governor, Co-Chair Scholarship Committee

Hal Matson, Historian 

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Jan DuPlain, Honorary Governor

Norah O'Donnell, Honorary Governor 

Click here to view past ANWC Governing Boards.