Victoria Rubadiri

Victoria Rubadiri (born 28 January 1987) is a Kenyan award-winning journalist and correspondent with CNN International in Kenya. In 2020, she won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, becoming the second Kenyan recipient of the honor.

Rubadiri earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 2009, from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to becoming a television anchor, she worked as a radio presenter at Capital FM in Nairobi.

Rubadiri is the granddaughter of the deceased Malawian poet and diplomat David Rubadiri and his wife teacher and independence activist Gertrude Rubadiri. In 2021 Rubadiri and her aunt Lindiwe Rubadiri-Mujugira published an account of her grandmother's life in the Society of Malawi Journal.

Career Rubadiri began her media career in the United States interning at WMGM – NBC 40 TV as an assignment desk editor in 2007. She later worked as a personal assistant at the Angela Crockett Company in Brooklyn, New York. She officially joined CNN International in April 2024.