Eliza Anyangwe

Eliza Anyangwe is the EMMY award-winning managing editor of As Equals, CNN’s global gender inequality reporting project. She just CNN in 2021 but began her career working for international development and environmental NGOs. She’s now spent over a decade in media, working at The Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and, most recently, member-funded journalism platform The Correspondent. In 2016, Eliza founded The Nzinga Effect, a media project focused on telling the stories of African and Afro-descendant women. She’s a seasoned media commentator for TV and radio (appearing on BBC Newsnight, PRI’s The World, Our Body Politic among others); a moderator, hosting events and panels for organisations including the World Health Summit, Dell, Stockholm International Water Institute, ITC, ECOSOC and Government of Belgium. Eliza is a contributing author to ‘Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century’, published by Routledge. She lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.