The Maynard Institute Staff: A Model of Cultural Diversity within the Workplace

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 J. Maynard, President
djm@maynardije.org

As a reporter, she has experience on both coasts -- The Bakersfield Californian, and The Patriot Ledger, in Quincy, Mass. -- as well as a stint at the Detroit Free Press, covering senate and mayoral campaigns, and City Hall. 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. While at Harvard, Dori specialized in research on public policy and poverty. She worked regularly with her father in researching and preparing for his appearances on This Week With David Brinkley and the MacNeil Lehrer Report.

Maynard graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, with a B.A. in American history.