Jour­nal­ist Ab­by Phillip, who was born to Trinida­di­an par­ents, has been recog­nised by TIME Mag­a­zine as an emerg­ing leader who is shap­ing the fu­ture of the world.

To­day, TIME re­vealed the 2021 TIME100 Next list, an ex­pan­sion of its flag­ship TIME100 fran­chise that recog­nis­es 100 emerg­ing lead­ers who are shap­ing the fu­ture of en­ter­tain­ment, health, pol­i­tics, busi­ness and more.

TIME Mag­a­zine list­ed Phillip as a Phe­nom.

"The shin­ing lights of this mo­ment herald­ing the achieve­ments of Black women work­ing in the po­lit­i­cal sphere have al­lowed us to watch the thought­ful and stud­ied ap­proach of Ab­by Phillip," the TIME Mag­a­zine stat­ed.

Phillip "of­fers a calm as­sur­ance in the midst of his­toric di­vides" the TIME Mag­a­zine write-up penned by au­thor April Ryan stat­ed.

"She is a fresh face, but not new to this game. She has learned that cov­er­ing the White House is very D.C.-fo­cused. How­ev­er, she is keen­ly aware that in cov­er­ing any beat, you need in­put from the rest of the coun­try and the world. She un­der­stands you have to hear and see the peo­ple to hear and see the sto­ry as it is re­al­ly hap­pen­ing," TIME Mag­a­zine stat­ed.

Phillip was born in Vir­ginia to par­ents June and Dr Car­los Phillip.

Phillip’s par­ents are orig­i­nal­ly from San­gre Grande.

Her par­ents mi­grat­ed to the US in 1985 and re­turned to Trinidad and To­ba­go in 1988 when she was a few months old.

She re­turned to the US when she was eight.

Phillip was laud­ed for her pro­fes­sion­al­ism dur­ing the 2020 US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.

Last month she was named CNN's Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Cor­re­spon­dent.

In ad­di­tion to her new port­fo­lio, CNN an­nounced that she will be­come the an­chor of In­side Pol­i­tics Sun­day with Ab­by Phillip, from 8-9 a.m. ET on Sun­days.