Gibran Caroline Boyce, On Fear | The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY - Graduation Speech Class of 2025 (Friday, December 19, 2025)

Gibran Caroline Boyce is a Trinidadian-American multimedia journalist from Long Island, NY, covering Washington and the world. She reports on how power, conflict and identity shape lives across borders via broadcast, narrative written features, investigations and photojournalism. A Boston College graduate, Boyce is an Ida B. Wells Society Scholar at the Newmark J-School, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in international reporting and broadcast journalism.

In 2025, Boyce began her reporting career interning with EVN Report in Armenia, covering geopolitics, national security and culture during the tail end of decades-long border conflict. Her reporting and photos from the U.S.-Mexico Border have appeared in The Guardian, El País and more. She previously interned at CNN on Fareed Zakaria GPS and aired her first broadcast news package on Spectrum News NY1. Boyce aspires to continue her work with in-depth coverage of Washington, geopolitics and international security — centering the communities affected by it all.

Chapters:

0:00 | Introduction

0:57 | Dedication

1:39 | Full Speech