Gwen Tolbart 2024 Alumni Recognition Awards speech

Gwen Tolbart received the Concordia University Alumni Association's International Excellence Award in 2024. She is an Emmy award-winning, five-time Emmy-nominated television broadcaster who stands out as much for career excellence as for her lifelong dedication to community service. The Montreal native launched her television career on local programs like Pulse News on CFCF-12 (now CTV) in the early 1990s. After graduating from Concordia’s journalism program, she moved to Dallas, Texas, where she won an Emmy with CBS before landing in Washington, D.C. Since 2002, she has been a weather anchor and feature reporter with WTTG Fox5, also writing and producing her own segment of positive, life-changing stories.