March 05, 2014

Distinguished Alumna 2013 Award: Meg Coker ’93

The Distinguished Alumna Award is given for rendering superior performance in her career field and superior service to her community.

The Distinguished Alumna Award is given for rendering superior performance in her career field and superior service to her community.

Margaret Coker ’93 has been a foreign correspondent since 1996, with postings in the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan, Moscow, Afghanistan, Jerusalem, and Baghdad. She has covered events and trends including the transformation of former Soviet bloc states into independent nations, the rise of globalized finance, and the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. She earned a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2011. In 2012, she was part of a team at the Wall Street Journal whose reporting earned the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.