PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Maria Ressa is CEO, co-founder and President of Rappler, the Philippines's top digital news site. She grew up in America and studied at Princeton University before working as a journalist in Asia for over 35 years. Maria has endured multiple arrests by the Duterte government, which is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A THOUSAND CUTS. Ressa won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 and is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2021. She was TIME Person of the Year in 2018, and was named by TIME as one of the most inspiring and influential women of the century. She has also featured in Prospect's Top 50 Thinkers, Bloomberg 50, and the BBC's Top 100 Women. She has received countless awards for her work, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. Before founding Rappler, Maria investigated terrorism in Southeast Asia, opening and running CNN's Manila Bureau and Jakarta Bureaus, before heading the largest news group in the Philippines. She wrote Seeds of Terror in 2003 and From Bin Laden to Facebook in 2012.
Absolutely sublime and transformational. [Maria Ressa] lays out the moral paradigm for our time and the consequences of ignoring it and the thrill and reward of embracing it * Shoshana Zuboff, author of the international bestselling Surveillance Capitalism * A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us * Hillary Clinton * I don't think I've read a more important book this year. * Andrew Marr, LBC * Maria is a key voice... she is so incredible in so many ways. The world needs to listen to what she has to say * Carole Cadwalladr * Maria Ressa is five feet two inches, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth * Amal Clooney *
