The International Regional Magazine Association Awards Committee is pleased to announce the Jury for the 2021 IRMA Awards. We are very grateful to all these talented industry leaders for giving us their time and expertise.
Awards for content produced by IRMA members between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 was evaluated to select the winners, announced in 2021.
Thank you to the judges of the 2021 IRMA Awards:
Writing Judges:
- John Andrews, Managing Editor, South Dakota Magazine
- Deborah Baldwin, Former Editor of This Old House, Real Simple, and Common Cause
- Al Bonowitz, Editor in Chief, AAA Hawai‘i, Editor in Chief, Northern New England Journey
- Kiera Butler, Senior Editor, Mother Jones
- Sue Carter, Deputy Editor, Inuit Art Quarterly
- Melissa Chessher, Professor & Chair, Syracuse University
- Deb Cummings, publications editor at the University of Calgary, Veteran Journalist
- Matthew DiMera, editor and Founder of The Resolve
- Terry Greene Sterling, Writer-in-Residence, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
- Jeff Labrecque, Former staff writer at Entertainment Weekly; communications writer at Princeton University
- Joseph O’Donnell, Editor/Publisher, B-Metro and BHM Biz magazines
- Anicka Quinn, Editor of Vancouver magazine/Western Living magazine
- Ingrid Randoja, writer, editor, Now Magazine, Cineplex Magazine
- Evelyn Renold, Former Deputy editor of Good Housekeeping magazine and editor at Lear’s and Newsday; taught journalism at NYU, Fordham and USC Annenberg
- Charles Salzberg Writer for The New York Times, New York Magazine, and co-founded the New York Writers Workshop
- Stephen Vest, Editor & Publisher, Kentucky Monthly
- Julia Wang, VP of Content at The Lifetime Value Co.
- Charles Whitaker, Dean and professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; former senior editor at Ebony
Design Judges:
- Maria Amador, Art Director, Reader’s Digest magazine
- Christine Dewairy, Art Director, Toronto Life magazine
- Natalie Gagnon, art director, publication designer, brand strategist and design educator
- Kathleen Gates, Gates Sisters Studio
- Sarah Hackman, CEO + Creative Director, Hackman Creative
- Todd Johnson, Front Porch Creative
- Jeremy Leslie, Founder of magCulture
- Dave McKenna, Art Director, 5280
- Melissa Newman, Art Director, Yoga Journal
- Pete Nguyen, Art Director, Creative Consultant
- Colleen Nicholson, Art Director
- Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Art Director, New Orleans Magazine
- James Reid, Director, Content Operations, Rogers