2024 Founder’s Awardees Named

The Association for Women in Communications Santa Barbara has announced three student, next-generation journalists as the recipients of the 2024 Founder’s Award in recognition of their work.

Next month Lois Phillips will present the annual awards to the journalists – Joyce Chi, Rosie Bultman, and Cebelli Pfeifer – at WorkZones in our Eden by the Beach. The award ceremony which will also feature a presentation by licensed psychologist Dr. Victoria Gonzalez.

Chi is an internal news director at KCSB at UCSB, her second year in the role, while Bultman is external news director at the station and sole producer of The People’s Program, a global news show.

Pfeifer is a second-year student at Santa Barbara City College and this year’s fall 2024 Editor-in-Chief of The Channels, a student-run newspaper. She is also a double major in political science and communications and plans to attend a four-year university soon.