Egan Ward is a senior journalism student at the University of Missouri. He spent spring 2024 with The Washingtonian Magazine in Washington, D.C. as an editorial fellow. He is a 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar and won the Missouri College Media Association’s Journalist of the Year Award in 2023. Previously, Ward worked as a staffer for the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Innovation in Focus team, Higher Education & Health Reporter for The Columbia Missourian, and Assistant General Manager of Mizzou Student Media.