Awards & Appearances

 

Molly regularly lectures on journalism for elementary, middle, high school, and college students. She’s also a regular guest speaker at universities, media events, and health conferences on the topics of journalism, global health, and foreign aid.

 

National Press Club 2019

Nominee: Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting

Pulitzer Center 2017

Grant for Crisis Reporting

American Psychoanalytic Association 2010

Award for Excellence in Journalism

Photo by Lisa Rayman Goldfarb
  • Emmy nomination 2026
  • “Cuts & Consequences,” the PBS NewsHour, Outstanding Continuing Coverage
  • Pulitzer Center 2025 
  • Reporting Grant

 

  • Pulitzer Center 2020
  • Reporting Fellow Advisor
  • National Press Club 2019
  • Nominee: Mattingly Award for Mental Health Reporting
  • Pulitzer Center 2017
  • Crisis Reporting Grant
  • American Psychoanalytic
    Association 2010
  • Award for Excellence in Journalism
  • Rosalynn Carter Fellowship 2007
  • Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism

Appearances & Events

 

 

Lecture: “How US Foreign Aid Policy Shaped Lives Around the World,” April 2026, University of Wisconsin & Madison Committee on Foreign Relations

Panelist: “Transforming Scientific Research Into Action,” Consortium of Universities for Global Health,” April 2026, Washington, D.C. 

Lecture: Global Health Storytelling & Global Health Foundations, Boston University, March 2025.

Panelist: “How the Second Trump Adminstration is Upending Global Health,” iMEdD Incubator for Media Education & Development, September 2025, Athens, Greece

The NewMid, September 2020, “Finding Inspiration from Tragedy”

Yale University 2019, Global Mental Health Symposium presenter

Harvard University 2019, “Still We Rise” screening

Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine 2019, “Still We Rise” screening

Performing the World 2018,  film producer panel

Princeton University, September 2016, Global Health Colloquium

PBS NewsHour, How 9/11 Victim Kept the Web Afloat

C-SPAN Book TV, October 2013

Talks @Google, October 2013

NPR “The Story”, September 2013

Harvard/MIT Bookstore, November 2013

National Press Club Book Fair, November 2013