Gibran Caroline Boyce is a Trinidadian-American multimedia journalist from New York, NY. Currently a production assistant at NBC News, her reporting often covers Washington and the world through the lens of how power, politics, conflict, and identity shape lives across borders and cultures in the United States and abroad. She specializes in broadcast, investigations, narrative feature writing, and photojournalism. In 2026, Boyce was awarded the Walter & Betsy Cronkite Scholarship for aspiring foreign correspondents by the Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation.
Boyce recently graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY as an Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting Scholar, earning a full scholarship for her master’s degree in international reporting and broadcast journalism. She was also the Commencement Speaker for her graduating class. Boyce graduated from Boston College in 2020, earning a bachelor’s degree in international studies, concentrating in conflict and cooperation, and a minor in journalism.
In April 2026, she originated, pitched, and helped write NBC News’ coverage of conspiracy narratives following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) attack, helping position the network among the very first to report on how misinformation spread at scale in real time. The story was picked up as a news package across multiple NBC News broadcast shows and platforms, with over 232,000 views on social media alone. The story was also featured in the NBC News politics desk’s far-reaching newsletter. In early March 2026, Boyce also reported breaking news on the spread of the U.S.-Iran War to Azerbaijan.
In Summer 2025, Boyce began her career as an international correspondent, interning for EVN Reportin Yerevan, Armenia. Traveling the country, she covered international security, geopolitics, and culture in the aftermath of a brutal, decades-long border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Field reporting from communities at the Armenia-Azerbaijan and Armenia-Iran borders, for EVN Report she covered the human tolls of the Israel-Iran War, the Armenia-Azerbaijan border conflict, national security, and conducted a six-month long investigation into Armenia-Azerbaijan lobbying in the U.S.
In Spring 2025 with Puente News Collaborative, she reported on the Trump Administration’s immigration and tariff policies from El Paso, Texas and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico Border — earning publication in The Guardian, El PaÃs, El Paso Times, Big Bend Sentinel, and more.
In Fall 2024, Boyce interned at CNN on Fareed Zakaria GPS, the network’s flagship foreign affairs broadcast program. During her time at CNN, she contributed to the show’s international impact and gained experience working in both the newsroom and control room at the height of one of the nation’s most consequential presidential elections and geopolitically tense periods in world history.
As a photojournalist, her photos from the U.S.-Mexico Border have been featured in The Guardian,EVN Report, and more. Her photo of one of the world’s premier ballet companies from Russia was published as the June 2025 cover photo of EVN Report’s lifestyle and culture magazine, SALT.
During her undergraduate degree, in addition to gaining international security and conflict research experience, she spent six months living in Barcelona, Spain, attending Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), studying international security, human rights, political tensions, and international journalism. Boyce has also won several awards for her early news and opinion writing in high school, including being recognized by the New York Times for her writing for social change in a student competition.
Passionate about human-centered visual storytelling, Boyce hopes to pursue on-camera broadcast and multiplatform immersive news documentary opportunities. She aims to do so alongside continuing her in-depth breaking news and investigative coverage of The White House, U.S. foreign policy, international security, and geopolitics via narrative written features and photojournalism.
You can follow her work on Instagram (@gibrancarolineboyce), TikTok (@gibrancboyce), and Substack.
