Eliza Anyangwe

Eliza Anyangwe is the Editor-in-Chief of The Fuller Project, focusing on setting the newsroom's journalistic vision and strategy, developing a growing staff of reporters and editors, fostering partnerships, and working closely with the CEO to secure the future of Fuller's impactful journalism.

Eliza is a media pioneer who has spent the past 15 years launching new platforms, innovating storytelling and engagement, building teams and telling new and necessary stories. Early in her career she led the Global Development Professionals Network at The Guardian then founded the Nzinga Effect, a media project aimed at telling richer, more diverse stories about African and afro-descendant women. After a brief stint freelancing, she then worked as a community organizer at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism before moving to Amsterdam in 2019 to set up the English-language newsroom for member-funded slow news platform, The Correspondent. In 2021 Eliza joined CNN to build As Equals, the Network's gender inequality reporting team, which she led the team to win a News EMMY and several other awards, and established it as a world leader in gender journalism. She still lives in the Netherlands and is The Fuller Project's first Editor-in-Chief based outside the US.

Born in Cameroon, Eliza has lived in 11 countries on three continents. She continues to love to travel (especially by train) and to connect with people: during the Covid 19 pandemic she began sending postcards to anyone - friends or strangers - who would ask for one via Instagram. Eliza is aunty to Spencer, her neighbor's cat, and speaks French, Pidgin, bad Dutch, marginally better Spanish, and 20-year old Sheng.