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Center for Public Health
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Analyzes the dynamics that drive job creation and promote industry expansion
Center for Strategic Philanthropy
Empowers philanthropists to effectively address some of the world's most urgent problems
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Financial Innovations Labs
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Global Market Development
Working with government partners in emerging and developing economies to build strong, domestic financial markets.
Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream
Anyone with a dream should have the opportunity to make it come true—through determination and an economic system that works for all
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Maria Ressa

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Editor, Rappler Inc.

Maria Ressa

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Maria Ressa has been honored around the world for her courageous work in fighting disinformation, "fake news" and attempts to silence the free press. In 2018, she was named Time magazine's ‘Person of the Year’ and won the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-INFRA), the Knight International Journalism Award of the International Center for Journalists, the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Journalist of Courage and Impact Award of East-West Center, and the IX International Press Freedom Award of University of Málaga and UNESCO. Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for more than 30 years. She was CNN's bureau chief in Manila then Jakarta, and became CNN's lead investigative reporter focusing on terrorism in Southeast Asia. She authored two books—Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia and From Bin Laden to Facebook. Ressa is one of the founders of the 6-year-old Rappler, one of the leading online news organizations in the Philippines.