Ali Gostanian
Director, I Believe Israeli Women @ Jewish Women International (JWI) | Feminist Diplomacy, International Policy + Social Strategy | Johns Hopkins SAIS ’25 | Ex: NBC News
About Me
Ali Gostanian is the Director of I Believe Israeli Women (IBIW) at Jewish Women International (JWI), a global movement standing in solidarity with Israeli survivors and fighting the denial of and disinformation about the sexual violence of October 7. A May 2025 graduate, with Honors, of the mid-career Master of International Public Policy (MIPP) program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), she studied international relations, public policy and geopolitics, with a focus on governance, security and statecraft in the Middle East.
Prior to transitioning into the policy and advocacy space, Ali spent a decade at NBC News as a multi-award-winning senior reporter, producer, editor and newsroom leader, specializing in open source intelligence, social media verification and investigative reporting. Her work has been featured on various NBC News platforms, including NBCNews.com, Today.com, The Today Show, Nightly News with Lester Holt, MSNBC, NBC News Now and others.
Ali is the winner of eight RTDNA National Murrow Awards, a News Emmy Award, a New York Press Club Award and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Professional Journalism. She was also nominated for twelve Emmy Awards during her time at NBC News.
She studied Communications and Media Studies, Journalism and Business Administration at Fordham University in New York where she graduated cum laude in 2015. She is proficient in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. Ali lives in the New York metro area with her husband and dog. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, traveling and photography.
Read more about Ali and her work at the following links:
https://www.aligostanian.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/author...
Awards
2025 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage: Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump
2025 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Newscast: Nightly News with Lester Holt (July 15, 2024)
2024 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage: Attack on Israel - October 7, 2023
2022 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage: January 6th Attack on the Capitol
2022 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Overall Excellence: NBC News
2022 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage: Siege of the Capitol
2022 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Newscast: Nightly News with Lester Holt (August 26, 2021)
2021 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Newscast: TODAY/NBC News
2020 RTDNA National Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage: Deadly Mass Shootings
2020 New York Press Club Award for Feature - Science Medicine & Technology: Climate in Crisis Coverage
2020 Society of Professional Journalists SigmaDelta Chi Award for Excellence in Professional Journalism: Notre Dame fire
Nominations
2025 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live News Special: Special Report - Assassination Attempt
2025 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live News Program: NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
2025 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live News Program: Top Story with Tom Llamas
2024 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage: Attack on Israel - October 7
2024 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live News Program: NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
2023 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage: Uvalde School Shooting
2023 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Live News Program: NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
2019 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage: Parkland School Shooting
2019 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Coverage of Breaking News in a Newscast: NBC Nightly News - State of Emergency: Hurricane Florence
2017 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage: Terror in Brussels
2017 NATAS News & Documentary Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast: NBC Nightly News - Brussels Under Attack