The Maynard Institute Staff: A Model of Cultural Diversity within the Workplace
Dori J. Maynard, President
djm@maynardije.org
Dori J. Maynard is the President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Prior to being named president in January 2001, she directed the History project which leads the way in preserving and protecting the contributions of those courageous journalists of color who broke into the mainstream media against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Dori also heads the Fault Lines project, a framework that helps journalists more accurately cover their communities. She is the co-author of "Letters to My Children," which is a compilation of nationally syndicated columns by her late father Bob Maynard, with introductory essays by Dori.
As a reporter, she worked on both coasts -- The Bakersfield Californian, and The Patriot Ledger, in Quincy, Massachusetts -- as well as at the Detroit Free Press,. In 1993 she and her father became the first father-daughter duo ever to be appointed Nieman scholars at Harvard University. Bob Maynard won this prestigious fellowship in 1966.
She currently serves on the board of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation. She received the prestigious "Fellow of Society" award from the Society of Professional Journalists at the national convention in Seattle, Wash. October 6, 2001 and was voted one of the "10 Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area" in 2004. In 2008 she received the Asian American Journalists Association's Leadership in Diversity Award.
Maynard graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, with a BA in American History.
Evelyn Hsu, Media Academy Program Director
ehsu@maynardije.org
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
East Coast Office
Evelyn Hsu is director of programs for the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She began her journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle where she was a City Hall reporter and a member of the investigative team. She spent eight years at The Washington Post as a metropolitan reporter covering politics and government and as an assistant editor for the paper's weeklies.
From the Post, she joined the American Press Institute in Reston, Va., as an associate director responsible for designing and leading seminars on editing, management and writing.
In 2000, she joined the faculty of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she worked on programs for students and on mid-career programs on management and writing.
She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and of the Maynard Institute's Summer Program for Minority Journalists.
She is a past national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and was a key organizer of the first UNITY conference that brought together more than 5,000 journalists. She has served on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications and on the board of the Student Press Law Center. She currently serves on the Youth Services Committee of the Newspaper Association of America.
Woody Lewis, Web Strategist and Technology Manager
woody@woodylewis.com
Woody Lewis manages the Institute's Web strategy, publishes content for its Web site, and develops frameworks for online learning. He designed and built the Maynard Institute's content audit server, a Web-based application used by news organizations to assess the diversity of their sources and the completeness of their coverage, and also developed a database application to facilitate fundraising.
Woody has also worked at Stanford University designing and managing Web applications and online learning frameworks. Before coming to the Maynard Institute, he managed pMedia, Inc., a digital media consulting company. Prior to that, he was a solutions architect with Cisco Systems and IBM. He has also been a digital media producer, a management consultant, and a corporate banker with Salomon Brothers and Citibank.
Woody has a B.A. in music and an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University, and an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Bennington College.
Dori Maynard tweets on Diversity, Media & More
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Gotta love this headline: Overwhelmingly White Media Criticize Conservative Rallies as 'Overwhelmingly White' http://tinyurl.com/24b4ada
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Philadelphia Daily News senior writer Will Bunch on Glenn Beck, the Tea Party and the media. http://tinyurl.com/2cd5kdl
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sitting in a verizon store w/a bunch of other 50 somethings learning how 2use my phone. Clearly not digi natives.
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