Three current or former IWMF award winners will participate in Women, Action & the Media 2009, an annual conference--sponsored by the Center for New Words in Boston--to share ideas about contemporary media, develop skills and build collaborations. Speakers include: Huda Ahmed, a 2007 Courage in Journalism awardee who is also a former IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship recipient; Peta Thornycroft, a journalist in Zimbabwe who won the 2007 IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award; and Jenny Manrique Cortes, a Columbian journalist who is the 2008-09 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. Read more about WAM 2009.